The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 5
By-and-by, they made way for a wonderfully big lion, which was eighty yards from nose to tail-tip, and was a magnificent creature.
Who acts: watches, big lion · What happens: make, be · To what, where: way, eighty yards, nose, magnificent creature
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 (watches, big lion), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 by | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 lion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 12 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 13 big | advmod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lion | amod |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yards | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 yards | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 yards | cop |
| 18 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 yards | nummod |
| 19 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lion | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yards | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 tip | case |
| 23 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tip | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 tail | punct |
| 25 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yards | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 creature | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 creature | cc |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 creature | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 creature | det |
| 30 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 creature | amod |
| 31 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | watches = watch | way | for a big lion and eighty yards | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for lion=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a big lion and eighty yards | eighty yards | nose | to tail tip | tree rules | ||
| 3 | is a | past | a magnificent creature | tree rules |
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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