The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 7
Seventy or eighty others were with it, and now encircled it at a little distance.
Who acts: Seventy others · What happens: be, encircle · To what, where: way
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 (Seventy others), 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 | Seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 others | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 eighty | cc |
| 3 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Seventy | conj |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 encircled | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 others | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 encircled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 encircled | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 encircled | advmod |
| 11 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 encircled | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 distance | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 encircled | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 encircled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | with way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | encircle | past | Seventy others | way | now | at a little distance | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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