The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 23
He nodded, and stretched out his hand; the fox put the bag into it, and unharnassed the reindeer he had chosen.
Who acts: Lapp, fox · What happens: nod, stretch out, put, unharnass, choose · To what, where: hand, bag, reindeer
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 (Lapp, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 nodded | nsubj |
| 2 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stretched | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stretched | cc |
| 5 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nodded | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 stretched | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stretched | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 put | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | nsubj |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bag | det |
| 14 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 unharnassed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 unharnassed | cc |
| 19 | unharnassed | unharnass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 nodded | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 reindeer | det |
| 21 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 unharnassed | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chosen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 chosen | aux |
| 24 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 reindeer | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | Lapp | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | Lapp not said here | Lapp's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | put | past | the fox | the bag | bag | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bag=Goal | |||
| 4 | unharnass | past | Lapp not said here | the reindeer | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | choose | past · perfect | fox | the reindeer not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=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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