The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 93
So the two brothers set off again and soon reached the side of a hill where some fine deer were grazing.
Who acts: two brothers, fine deer · What happens: set off, reach, graze · To what, where: side
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, fine deer), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 reached | advmod |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 side | det |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 side | nmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 grazing | advmod |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 deer | det |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deer | amod |
| 19 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grazing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grazing | aux |
| 21 | grazing | graze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hill | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the two brothers | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the two brothers not said here | the side of a hill | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||
| 3 | graze | past · progressive | some fine deer | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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