The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 73
So the next morning she got up early, and after she had cleaned her house, and fed her chickens, and put everything in its place again, she bent over the kitchen table, and the sound of her big scissors might be heard snip! snap! as far as the garden.
Who acts: wool · What happens: get up, clean, feed, put, bend, hear · To what, where: house, chickens, everything, place, kitchen table, sound
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 (wool), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 early | advmod |
| 8 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cleaned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cleaned | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 cleaned | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cleaned | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cleaned | aux |
| 14 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 got | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cleaned | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fed | cc |
| 19 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 21 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 put | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 got | advcl |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 place | nmod:poss |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 put | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bent | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bent | nsubj |
| 32 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 table | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 table | det |
| 35 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 table | compound |
| 36 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bent | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 heard | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 heard | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sound | det |
| 40 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 scissors | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 43 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 scissors | amod |
| 44 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 sound | nmod |
| 45 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 heard | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 heard | aux:pass |
| 47 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 got | conj |
| 48 | snip | snip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 snap | compound |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 48 snip | punct |
| 50 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 heard | obj |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 50 snap | punct |
| 52 | as | as | ADV | _ | 53 far | advmod |
| 53 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 heard | advmod |
| 54 | as | as | ADP | _ | 56 garden | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 garden | det |
| 56 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 far | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | wool | morning | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | clean | past · perfect | wool | wool's house | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | past | wool not said here | wool's chickens | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | wool not said here | everything | house's place | again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in place=Destination | ||
| 5 | bend | past | wool | the kitchen table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over table=Location | ||||
| 6 | hear | might · passive | the sound of wool's big scissors | far 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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