The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 52
The girl saw that nurse tottering along and went down to help, marching with the gait of a prancing peacock.
Who acts: girl, nurse · What happens: see, totter, go down, help, march · To what, where: nurse
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, nurse), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 nurse | det |
| 5 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | tottering | totter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 nurse | acl |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 tottering | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 help | mark |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marching | punct |
| 14 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 help | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 gait | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gait | det |
| 17 | gait | gait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marching | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 peacock | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 peacock | det |
| 20 | prancing | prancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 peacock | compound |
| 21 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gait | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the girl | that nurse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nurse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | totter | gerund | that nurse not said here | along property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go down | past | the girl not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | march | gerund | the girl not said here | with the gait of a prancing peacock | 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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