The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 101
The cat was constantly with her, and ran after her wherever she went, and even sat up proudly by her side when she drove out in her fine glass coach.
Who acts: cat · What happens: be, run, go, sit up, drive out · To what, where: fine glass coach
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 her | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 her | cop |
| 4 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 6 her | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | obl |
| 12 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 went | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 sat | advmod |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 sat | compound:prt |
| 20 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 18 sat | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 side | nmod:poss |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 drove | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 drove | nsubj |
| 26 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sat | advcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 drove | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 coach | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 coach | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 coach | amod |
| 31 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coach | compound |
| 32 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drove | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cat | with Cat; constantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | after Cat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Cat | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit up | past | by Cat's side; proudly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | |||||
| 5 | drive out | past | Cat | Cat's fine glass coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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