The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 97
The cat waited for a long while, but finding that the lion did not return, went back to the house where they lived.
Who acts: cat, lion · What happens: wait, find, not return, go back, live · 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 (cat, lion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cat | det |
| 2 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 while | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 while | amod |
| 7 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finding | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 finding | cc |
| 10 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 waited | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 return | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lion | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 return | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 return | advmod |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 finding | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 lived | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 house | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the cat | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | the cat not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not return | past · do-support | the lion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | the cat not said here | to the house result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | ||||
| 5 | live | past | Lion | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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