The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 34
Chil-maq went out, tall as a tower, and bearing a shield of eight millstones, and as he walked he shouted: “Ho! blunder-head! by what right do you come to our country and kill our people?
Who acts: Chil maq, maq, you · What happens: go out, bear, walk, shout, come, kill · To what, where: shield, Ho blunder head, country, people · 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 (Chil maq, maq, you), 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 | Chil | Chil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 maq | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chil | punct |
| 3 | maq | maq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 tall | punct |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tall | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bearing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bearing | cc |
| 13 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shield | det |
| 15 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bearing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 millstones | case |
| 17 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 millstones | nummod |
| 18 | millstones | millstone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shield | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 walked | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 walked | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 walked | nsubj |
| 23 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shouted | nsubj |
| 25 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 walked | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 head | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 head | punct |
| 28 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 head | compound |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 Ho | punct |
| 30 | blunder | blunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 head | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 blunder | punct |
| 32 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walked | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 head | punct |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 what | case |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 walked | obl |
| 36 | right | right | ADV | _ | 39 come | advmod |
| 37 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 come | aux |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 come | nsubj |
| 39 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 what | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 country | case |
| 41 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 country | nmod:poss |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 come | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 kill | cc |
| 44 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 come | conj |
| 45 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 people | nmod:poss |
| 46 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 kill | obj |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Chil maq | tall property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | Chil maq not said here | a shield of eight millstones | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | maq | Ho blunder head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by what=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | maq | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · do-support | you | our country | right property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | kill in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | our people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
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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