The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 2
Day by day the princess pulled up some of them, and made experiments with them, conjuring up now this longed-for person, and now that, just for the pleasure of seeing them as they appeared; but she really had another purpose in view.
Who acts: Day, fires, princess · What happens: pull up, make, conjure up, long, see, appear · To what, where: some, experiments, this, fires, purpose, view
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, fires, princess), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | nsubj |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 pulled | compound:prt |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 pulled | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 some | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pulled | conj |
| 14 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conjuring | punct |
| 18 | conjuring | conjure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 made | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 conjuring | compound:prt |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 conjuring | advmod |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 conjuring | obj |
| 22 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 conjuring | xcomp |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 person | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 person | case |
| 25 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 longed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pleasure | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pleasure | cc |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 pleasure | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 pleasure | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pleasure | punct |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 pleasure | advmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 pleasure | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pleasure | det |
| 34 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 seeing | mark |
| 36 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 pleasure | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seeing | obj |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 appeared | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 appeared | nsubj |
| 40 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seeing | advcl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 had | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 had | cc |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 had | nsubj |
| 44 | really | really | ADV | _ | 45 had | advmod |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pulled | conj |
| 46 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 purpose | det |
| 47 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 view | case |
| 49 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | Day by day | some | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Day by day not said here | experiments | with fires = fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset experiment=Product | |||
| 3 | conjure up | gerund | Day by day not said here | this | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | long | participle | Day by day not said here | for person | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for person=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | gerund | Day by day not said here | fires = fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | appear | past | fires = fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | have | past | princess | another purpose | view | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Patient |
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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