The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 19
He was thinking of tying his horse to a tree which grew near the gate when a negro came out and spied him.
Who acts: prince, tree, negro · What happens: think, tie, grow, come out, spy · To what, where: horse, gate, prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, tree, negro), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 tying | mark |
| 5 | tying | tie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thinking | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tying | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tying | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tree | acl:relcl |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gate | det |
| 15 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obl |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 negro | det |
| 18 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grew | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spied | cc |
| 22 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 came | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spied | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | prince | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tie | gerund | prince not said here | prince's horse | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | grow | past | a tree | the gate | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near gate=Location | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | a negro | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spy | past | a negro not said here | prince | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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