The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 9
Oh! how glad they both were when they caught sight of a tall rock in the distance.
Who acts: words · What happens: be, sight · To what, where: tall rock
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 glad | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj:outer |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 they | appos |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | cop |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 caught | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | advcl |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rock | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rock | amod |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 distance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | words = word | in the distance; catch property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sight | a tall rock | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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