The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 41
He remained for some time living as a deer amongst the rest, but at length resolved that an end to such a life must be put ill some way.
Who acts: Latifa, time · What happens: remain, live, resolve, put · To what, where: rest, length, end
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Latifa, time), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 time | acl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 deer | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deer | det |
| 9 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 10 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 12 rest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resolved | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 resolved | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resolved | obl |
| 17 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 put | mark |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 life | det:predet |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 life | det |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 end | nmod |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 put | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 put | aux:pass |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 resolved | advcl |
| 28 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 put | xcomp |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 put | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Latifa | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | some time not said here | the rest | as a deer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst rest=Location | |||
| 3 | resolve | past | Latifa not said here | length | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | must · passive | a end to such life | some way obl:unmarked; ill property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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