The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 26
“I am coming!” was the answer; and in another moment a cart made its way through the trees, driven by Kisa, who used her tail as a whip to urge the horse to go faster.
Who acts: coming, cart, Kisa · What happens: come, be, make, drive, use, urge · To what, where: answer, way, trees, cart, tail, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (coming, cart, Kisa), 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 | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 coming | aux |
| 4 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answer | csubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 coming | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answer | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 answer | det |
| 9 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 moment | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moment | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answer | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cart | det |
| 16 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moment | appos |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cart | acl |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 driven | punct |
| 24 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 cart | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Kisa | case |
| 26 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 driven | obl:agent |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 used | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 used | nsubj |
| 29 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Kisa | acl:relcl |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tail | nmod:poss |
| 31 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 used | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 whip | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 whip | det |
| 34 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 used | obl |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 urge | mark |
| 36 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 used | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 horse | det |
| 38 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 urge | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 go | mark |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 urge | xcomp |
| 41 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 go | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | coming | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | coming | the answer | moment | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | participle | a cart not said here | cart's way | the trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 4 | drive | participle | a cart not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | use | past | Kisa | Ingibjorg's tail | as a whip | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent tail=Duration as whip=Attribute | |||
| 6 | urge | to-infinitive | Kisa not said here | the horse | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kisa not said here | fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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