The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 65
Seizing a big stick, he began to beat the intruder and to drive him out of his garden.
Who acts: baby · What happens: seize, begin, beat, drive · To what, where: big stick, intruder, baby, garden
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby), 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 | Seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 began | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stick | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stick | amod |
| 4 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seizing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seizing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 beat | mark |
| 9 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 intruder | det |
| 11 | intruder | intruder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beat | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drive | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 drive | mark |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 beat | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drive | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 garden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drive | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | baby not said here | a big stick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | baby | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beat | to-infinitive | baby not said here | the intruder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location intruder=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive | to-infinitive | baby not said here | baby | baby's garden | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out garden=Trajectory |
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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