The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 2
Then she escorted him a little way; they parted, and she went home to mourn his absence.
Who acts: she, things, his · What happens: escort, part, go, mourn, absent · To what, where: him, absence
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 (she, things, his), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 escorted | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 escorted | nsubj |
| 3 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 escorted | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 escorted | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 parted | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 parted | nsubj |
| 10 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 escorted | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 parted | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 mourn | mark |
| 17 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 absence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mourn | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 escorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort | past | she | him = he | then | a little way obl:unmarked | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | part | past | things = thing | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | go | past | she | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mourn | to-infinitive | she not said here | his absence | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | absent | his = he | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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