The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 80
With this he sowed a great field, and sent a vast army of his goblins to watch and tend it, and to bring up the fiery rivers from the heart of the earth near enough to warm and encourage the sprouting seeds.
Who acts: gnome · What happens: sow, send, watch, tend, bring up, warm · To what, where: great field, vast army, army, fiery rivers, heart, sprouting seeds
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sowed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sowed | nsubj |
| 4 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 field | amod |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sowed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sent | cc |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sowed | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 army | det |
| 12 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 army | amod |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 goblins | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 goblins | nmod:poss |
| 16 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 army | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 watch | mark |
| 18 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tend | cc |
| 20 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 watch | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 tend | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bring | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sowed | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 bring | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rivers | det |
| 28 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rivers | amod |
| 29 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bring | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 heart | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 heart | det |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rivers | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 earth | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 earth | det |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | nmod |
| 36 | near | near | ADV | _ | 37 enough | advmod |
| 37 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 bring | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 warm | mark |
| 39 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bring | advcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 encourage | cc |
| 41 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 warm | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 seeds | det |
| 43 | sprouting | sprouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 seeds | compound |
| 44 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 encourage | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sow | past | gnome | a great field | with this | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Destination with this=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past | gnome not said here | a vast army of gnome's goblins | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | gnome not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tend | infinitive | gnome not said here | army | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring up | to-infinitive | gnome not said here | the fiery rivers | the heart of the earth | enough property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||
| 6 | warm | to-infinitive | gnome not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | encourage | infinitive | gnome not said here | the sprouting seeds | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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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