The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 44
When he looked about he found that he was in the very same place he had jumped from; there was the palace, there the garden and the deer!
Who acts: end, same place, palace · What happens: look, find, be, have, jump · To what, where: garden, same place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (end, same place, palace), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 found | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 place | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 place | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 same | advmod |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 place | amod |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | ccomp |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 jumped | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 palace | det |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 looked | expl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 garden | det |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 deer | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 deer | det |
| 30 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 garden | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | end | the garden and the deer | there | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | find | past | end | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | end | the same place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | end | the same place not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | the same place not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be | past | the palace | there | 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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