The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 96

After they had gone some way, they passed a tree-stump, on which a bright coloured woodpecker was tapping.

Who acts: Fox, bright coloured woodpecker · What happens: go, pass, tap · To what, where: way, tree stump

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 (Fox, bright coloured woodpecker), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 passed	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stump	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stump	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
13	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tapping	punct
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 tapping	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woodpecker	det
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woodpecker	amod
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woodpecker	amod
20	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tapping	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tapping	aux
22	tapping	tap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 passed	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Fox	some way	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	Fox	a tree stump	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stump=Trajectory
3	tap	past · progressive	a bright coloured woodpecker		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on which=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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