The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 108
As soon as she returned from her drive she trotted off to the forest to consult a fairy who dwelt there, and very soon after the queen had a little girl, who seemed made out of snow and sunbeams.
Who acts: Cat, fairy, queen, little girl · What happens: return, trot off, consult, dwell, have, seem · To what, where: drive, forest, fairy, little girl, snow
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, fairy, queen, little girl), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 trotted | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 returned | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 drive | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drive | nmod:poss |
| 8 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trotted | nsubj |
| 10 | trotted | trot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 trotted | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trotted | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 consult | mark |
| 16 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 trotted | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fairy | det |
| 18 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consult | obj |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 dwelt | nsubj |
| 20 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 dwelt | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 had | cc |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 had | advmod |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trotted | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 girl | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 girl | amod |
| 32 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 seemed | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 seemed | nsubj |
| 35 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 girl | acl:relcl |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 seemed | xcomp |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 snow | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 snow | case |
| 39 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sunbeams | cc |
| 41 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 snow | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 trotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Cat | Cat's drive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from drive=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | trot off | past | Cat | the forest | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to forest=Destination | |||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | a fairy | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dwell | past | a fairy | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the queen | a little girl | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | |||
| 6 | seem | past | a little girl | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | make out | participle | a little girl not said here | snow and sunbeams | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snow=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | drive | Cat | nom drive «act transitive»: poss=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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