The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 56
A leash was brought, fruits were given, and it was caressed with delight.
What happens: bring, give, caress · To what, where: leash, fruits
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 leash | det |
| 2 | leash | leash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 given | punct |
| 6 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caressed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caressed | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 caressed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caressed | aux:pass |
| 13 | caressed | caress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 delight | case |
| 15 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caressed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a leash | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | fruits | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | caress | past · passive | leash | with delight | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme with delight=Instrument |
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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