The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 69
So she watched for an opportunity and managed to carry off the brocade the first time the witch left her room.
Who acts: Signy, witch · What happens: watch, manage, carry off, leave · To what, where: brocade, room
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 (Signy, witch), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 opportunity | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 managed | cc |
| 8 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 managed | xcomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carry | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brocade | det |
| 13 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Signy | for a opportunity | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | manage | past | Signy not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | carry off | to-infinitive | Signy not said here | the brocade | time | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brocade=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | past | the witch | Signy's room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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