The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 76
The woman patted and pinned and fixed and joined, and then, turning to the man, she said:
Who acts: woman · What happens: pat, pin, fix, join, turn, say · To what, where: woman · 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 (woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 woman | det |
| 2 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 3 | patted | pat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 woman | acl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pinned | cc |
| 5 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 patted | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fixed | cc |
| 7 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 patted | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 joined | cc |
| 9 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fixed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turning | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turning | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 turning | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turning | punct |
| 14 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 woman | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turning | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 woman | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pat | participle | the woman not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pin | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | join | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | turn | gerund | the woman not said here | then | to the man result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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