The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 31
A second negro came out of the fort, and seeing what had been done, went back and told his chief.
Who acts: second negro · What happens: come out, see, do, go back, tell · To what, where: fort, chief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (second 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 negro | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 negro | amod |
| 3 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 fort | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fort | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fort | det |
| 8 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seeing | cc |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 done | obj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seeing | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chief | nmod:poss |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | a second negro | the fort | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient fort=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | a second negro not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | go back | past | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | negro's chief | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient |
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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