The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 15
Then they rushed with one accord to the coffin, and lifted the lid so that the man could step out amongst them.
Who acts: people, man · What happens: rush, lift, step out · To what, where: coffin, lid
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 (people, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 accord | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 accord | nummod |
| 6 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 coffin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coffin | det |
| 9 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lifted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lifted | cc |
| 12 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lid | det |
| 14 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lifted | obj |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 step | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 step | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 step | aux |
| 20 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lifted | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 step | compound:prt |
| 22 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 step | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | people | the coffin | then | with one accord | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to coffin=Destination | ||
| 2 | lift | past | people not said here | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | step out | could | the man | amongst people | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst they=Trajectory |
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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