The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 26
Then he whipped up his reindeer, and was soon out of sight.
Who acts: fox · What happens: whip up, be · To what, where: reindeer, sight
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 whipped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 whipped | nsubj |
| 3 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 whipped | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 reindeer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whipped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sight | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sight | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sight | cop |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 sight | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whipped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whip up | past | fox | fox's reindeer | then | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent reindeer=Material | |||
| 2 | is | past | sight | soon property | tree rules |
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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