The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 49
However, she went down into the garden and held out some grass, but when she went near the creature ran away.
Who acts: girl, creature · What happens: go down, hold out, go, run away · To what, where: garden, grass
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 (girl, creature), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 held | cc |
| 10 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 held | compound:prt |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 grass | det |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 held | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 ran | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 creature | det |
| 21 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 ran | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | girl | the garden | down, however property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hold out | participle | girl not said here | some grass | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run away | past | the creature | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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