The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 79
The gnome, however, set off above ground as speedily as possible, and disguising himself as a farmer, bought an ass in the nearest market-town, and brought it back loaded with sacks of turnip, carrot, and radish seed.
Who acts: gnome, ass · What happens: set off, disguise, buy, bring, load · To what, where: ground, gnome, ass, nearest market town
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnome, ass), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gnome | det |
| 2 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gnome | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 9 ground | advmod |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 speedily | advmod |
| 11 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 possible | mark |
| 13 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speedily | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bought | cc |
| 16 | disguising | disguise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 bought | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 disguising | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 farmer | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 farmer | det |
| 20 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disguising | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 disguising | punct |
| 22 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | parataxis |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ass | det |
| 24 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bought | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 27 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 town | amod |
| 28 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 town | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 market | punct |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bought | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 brought | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 brought | cc |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 bought | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 loaded | nsubj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 loaded | advmod |
| 36 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 brought | ccomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 sacks | case |
| 38 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 loaded | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 turnip | case |
| 40 | turnip | turnip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sacks | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 carrot | punct |
| 42 | carrot | carrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 turnip | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 seed | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 seed | cc |
| 45 | radish | radish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 seed | compound |
| 46 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bought | parataxis |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | infinitive | the gnome | ground | however, speedily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | disguise | gerund | gnome | as a farmer | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination | ||||
| 3 | buy | past | a ass | the nearest market town | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | load | past | ass | with sacks of turnip and carrot | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sack=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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