The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 78
One day the two brothers started to hunt at daybreak, but as the cat could not run nearly as fast as the lion, he had quite a long start.
Who acts: two brothers, cat, brother · What happens: start, hunt, not run, have · To what, where: daybreak, long start
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 (two brothers, cat, brother), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brothers | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hunt | mark |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 started | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 daybreak | case |
| 10 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 run | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 run | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 run | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 run | advmod |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | advcl |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 fast | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 fast | advmod |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 run | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 lion | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lion | det |
| 24 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fast | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 run | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 28 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 start | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 start | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 start | amod |
| 31 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the two brothers | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | the two brothers not said here | daybreak | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at daybreak=Location | ||||
| 3 | not run | could | the cat | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past | brother | quite long start | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=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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