The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 71
When it was finished she climbed to the top of her tree and contrived to throw the clothes on to a table through the open window.
Who acts: Signy · What happens: finish, climb, contrive, throw on · To what, where: end, top, clothes, open window
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux:pass |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 climbed | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 climbed | nsubj |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tree | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 contrived | cc |
| 14 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 throw | mark |
| 16 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 contrived | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 clothes | det |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 throw | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 throw | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 table | det |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throw | obl |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 window | det |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 window | amod |
| 26 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | end | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | climb | past | Signy | the top of Signy's tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 3 | contrive | past | Signy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | throw on | to-infinitive | Signy not said here | the clothes | the open window | to a table | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme to table=Destination |
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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