The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 37
And he and his wife were so busy calling Ingibjorg all sorts of names for her bad behaviour, that they never noticed Kisa stealing into a dark corner, and upsetting a whole bag of salt into the great pot before the fire.
Who acts: giant, sorts, Kisa · What happens: be, call, not notice, steal, upset, sort · To what, where: Ingibjorg, Kisa, dark corner, whole bag, great pot, names · 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 (giant, sorts, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 busy | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 he | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 busy | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 busy | advmod |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 busy | advcl |
| 10 | Ingibjorg | Ingibjorg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 calling | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sorts | det |
| 12 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 calling | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 names | case |
| 14 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sorts | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 behaviour | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 behaviour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 behaviour | amod |
| 18 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 names | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 noticed | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 noticed | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 noticed | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 noticed | advmod |
| 23 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 busy | conj |
| 24 | Kisa | Kisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | obj |
| 25 | stealing | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 noticed | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 corner | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 corner | det |
| 28 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 corner | amod |
| 29 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stealing | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 upsetting | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 upsetting | cc |
| 32 | upsetting | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 stealing | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 bag | det |
| 34 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bag | amod |
| 35 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 upsetting | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 salt | case |
| 37 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bag | nmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 pot | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pot | det |
| 40 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pot | amod |
| 41 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 upsetting | obl |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 44 fire | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 fire | det |
| 44 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 upsetting | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | giant | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | giant not said here | Ingibjorg | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ingibjorg=Theme sort=Result | ||||
| 3 | not notice | past | sorts = sort | Kisa | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | steal | gerund | Kisa not said here | a dark corner | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | upset | gerund | Kisa not said here | a whole bag of salt | the great pot | before the fire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bag=Experiencer | ||
| 6 | sort | names for Kisa's bad behaviour | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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