The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 107
Of course that did not trouble the gnome at all, he simply got out through the keyhole, and went away down to his underground palace, very much disappointed by his first experience of mankind.
Who acts: course, Gnome · What happens: do, get out, go away, disappoint, experience · To what, where: trouble, keyhole, underground palace, mankind
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, Gnome), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 course | acl:relcl |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gnome | det |
| 8 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 gnome | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 13 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 keyhole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 keyhole | det |
| 18 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 palace | amod |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 disappointed | punct |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 disappointed | advmod |
| 31 | disappointed | disappoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 palace | acl:relcl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 experience | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 experience | nmod:poss |
| 34 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 experience | amod |
| 35 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 disappointed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 mankind | case |
| 37 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 experience | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | course | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | Gnome | the keyhole | out, simply property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | go away | past | Gnome not said here | Gnome's underground palace | away, down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | disappoint | participle | Gnome's underground palace not said here | by Gnome's first experience of mankind | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | experience | Gnome | mankind | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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