The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 34
Then Kisa got into the cart, which was standing at the door, and catching up the reins, drove straight to the giant’s cave.
Who acts: Kisa, cart · What happens: get, stand, catch up, drive · To what, where: cart, door, reins, cave
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, cart), 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 got | advmod |
| 2 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 cart | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cart | det |
| 6 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 standing | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 standing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 standing | aux |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cart | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 catching | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 catching | cc |
| 16 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 standing | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 catching | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reins | det |
| 19 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 catching | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drove | punct |
| 21 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 22 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 cave | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 cave | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 giant | det |
| 25 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cave | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 giant | case |
| 27 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drove | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Kisa | the cart | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cart=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the cart | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 3 | catch up | gerund | the cart not said here | the reins | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive | past | Kisa not said here | the giant's cave | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to cave=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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