The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 96
And as gnomes live many hundreds of years he saw strange things.
Who acts: gnomes, many hundreds · What happens: live, see · To what, where: strange things
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 (gnomes, many hundreds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 live | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 gnomes | case |
| 3 | gnomes | gnome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hundreds | amod |
| 6 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hundreds | nmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | conj |
| 11 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | gnomes | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | many hundreds of years | strange things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/30/96/