The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 18
Suddenly he saw a beautiful ball, for all the world like his own, dangling from a branch of the tree he was on.
Who acts: cat · What happens: see, dangle, be · To what, where: beautiful ball, branch, tree
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ball | amod |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 world | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 world | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 own | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dangling | punct |
| 16 | dangling | dangle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 branch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 branch | det |
| 19 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dangling | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 branch | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 on | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 on | cop |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 tree | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | cat | a beautiful ball | for all world like cat's own; suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dangle | gerund | cat not said here | a branch of the tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | cat | the tree not said here | on property | tree rules |
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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