The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 27
Directly Kisa saw Ingibjorg lying there, she jumped quickly down, and lifting the girl carefully in her two front paws, laid her upon some soft hay, and drove back to her own little hut.
Who acts: Kisa, Ingibjorg · What happens: see, lie, jump down, lift, lay, drive back · To what, where: Ingibjorg, girl, two front paws, soft hay, own little hut
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 (Kisa, Ingibjorg), 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ingibjorg | Ingibjorg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Ingibjorg | acl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lying | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jumped | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 jumped | nsubj |
| 9 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 10 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 jumped | advmod |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 jumped | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 laid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 laid | cc |
| 14 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 laid | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifting | obj |
| 17 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 14 lifting | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 paws | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 paws | nmod:poss |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 paws | nummod |
| 21 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 paws | amod |
| 22 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lifting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifting | punct |
| 24 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 laid | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 hay | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 hay | det |
| 28 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hay | amod |
| 29 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laid | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 drove | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 drove | cc |
| 32 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 33 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 drove | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 hut | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hut | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hut | amod |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hut | amod |
| 38 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drove | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Kisa | Ingibjorg | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ingibjorg=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | Ingibjorg not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | jump down | past | Kisa | down, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lift | gerund | the girl | Ingibjorg's two front paws | carefully property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme in paw=Destination | |||
| 5 | lay | past | Kisa not said here | Ingibjorg | some soft hay | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon hay=Destination | |||
| 6 | drive back | past | Kisa not said here | Ingibjorg's own little hut | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to hut=Trajectory |
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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