The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 101
“The fact is, that I did not get up to them till we had run half way across the world and left the wind far behind us.
Who acts: fact, we · What happens: not be, run, leave · To what, where: deer, way, world, wind
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fact | det |
| 3 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 get | advmod |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 get | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obl |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 run | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 run | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 run | aux |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 get | advcl |
| 18 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 way | advmod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 run | obl |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 run | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 run | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 left | advmod |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 far | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present · do-support | the fact | deer | get property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | run in a quote | past · perfect | we | way | the world | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across world=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | leave in a quote | past | we not said here | the wind | far property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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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