The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 32
But there was nothing; only, on the other side, he saw two girls cooking, and though he shouted to them at the top of his voice, they were too far off to hear what he said.
Who acts: nothing, cat, girls, two girls · What happens: be, see, shout, hear, say, cook · To what, where: other side, cooking, girls, top · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (nothing, cat, girls, two girls), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | parataxis |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 side | punct |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 side | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 side | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 side | amod |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 girls | nummod |
| 16 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cooking | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shouted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shouted | cc |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 shouted | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shouted | nsubj |
| 22 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shouted | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shouted | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 voice | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 off | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 off | nsubj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 off | cop |
| 34 | too | too | ADV | _ | 35 far | advmod |
| 35 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 off | advmod |
| 36 | off | off | ADV | _ | 14 saw | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 hear | mark |
| 38 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 off | advcl |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 41 said | obj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 said | nsubj |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 hear | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | the other side; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | cat | two girls's cooking | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cooking=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | cat | girls = girl | the top of cat's voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is | past | girls = girl | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | to-infinitive | girls = girl not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | cook | two girls | nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=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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