The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 42
When they heard why they had been summoned, they declared themselves ready each one to do his part.
Who acts: creatures · What happens: hear, summon, declare, do · To what, where: creatures, part · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (creatures), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 declared | advcl |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 summoned | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 summoned | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 summoned | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 summoned | aux:pass |
| 8 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 declared | nsubj |
| 11 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 declared | obj |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 declared | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | acl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 part | nmod:poss |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | creatures = creature | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | summon | past · perfect · passive | creatures = creature | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | creatures = creature | creatures = creature | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | creatures = creature not said here | fox's part | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality |
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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