The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 46
Where there is a river, sooner or later people will come; so, hanging myself on a tree, I watched and waited.
Who acts: river, people, I · What happens: be, come, hang, watch, wait · To what, where: river, myself, 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 (river, people, I), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 is | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hanging | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 come | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 come | advmod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 river | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hanging | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hanging | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hanging | punct |
| 16 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hanging | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hanging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 watched | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 watched | nsubj |
| 23 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hanging | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 waited | cc |
| 25 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 watched | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a river | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | future | people | a river not said here | late, soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location river=Theme | |||
| 3 | hang | gerund | myself | a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on tree=Destination | ||||
| 4 | watch | past | I | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wait | past | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «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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