The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 33
And, what was worse, the ball suddenly fell out of its snake’s skin bag right into the river.
Who acts: ball · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: skin bag
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 (ball), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 worse | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 worse | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | cop |
| 5 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ball | det |
| 8 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worse | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 bag | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bag | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 snake | nmod:poss |
| 14 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bag | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 snake | case |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bag | compound |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 river | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | the ball | ball's snake's skin bag | into the river; suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out bag=Initial_Location into river=Destination |
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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