The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 9
On this particular morning the fancy took them to wander off again into the wood.
Who acts: fancy · What happens: take, wander off · To what, where: flowers, wood
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 (fancy), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fancy | det |
| 6 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 wander | mark |
| 10 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 took | advcl |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 wander | compound:prt |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 wander | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wander | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the fancy | flowers = flower | morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | wander off | to-infinitive | the fancy not said here | the wood | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=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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