The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 12
By-and-by he met a Lapp driving his team of reindeer along the road, and as he drew near, the fox rattled the bones gaily.
Who acts: fox · What happens: meet, drive, draw, rattle · To what, where: Lapp, team, road, bones
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 (fox), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 met | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Lapp | det |
| 9 | Lapp | Lapp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 met | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 team | nmod:poss |
| 12 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reindeer | case |
| 14 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 team | nmod |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 driving | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rattled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rattled | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 drew | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drew | nsubj |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 rattled | advcl |
| 23 | near | near | ADV | _ | 22 drew | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drew | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fox | det |
| 26 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rattled | nsubj |
| 27 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bones | det |
| 29 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rattled | obj |
| 30 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rattled | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | fox | a Lapp | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lapp=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | fox not said here | fox's team of reindeer | the road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent team=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | draw | past | fox | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rattle | past | the fox | the bones | gaily property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
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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