The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 38
They were delighted with their new toy, and one or the other held it in her hand till bedtime came, and then it was a long time before they could make up their minds where it would be safest for the night.
Who acts: girls, one, bedtime · What happens: be, hold, come, make up, mind · To what, where: toy, hand, long time, minds
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 (girls, one, bedtime), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 toy | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 toy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 toy | amod |
| 7 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 held | nsubj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 other | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | conj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 time | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 time | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 time | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 time | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 make | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 make | aux |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 time | acl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 make | compound:prt |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 minds | nmod:poss |
| 36 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 make | obj |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 safest | advmod |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 safest | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 safest | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 safest | cop |
| 41 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 minds | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 night | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 night | det |
| 44 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 safest | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girls = girl | with girls's new toy; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | one | toy | river's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | bedtime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | bedtime | a long time | then | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make up | could | girls = girl | girls's minds | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | is | would | bedtime | night | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | mind | girls = girl | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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