The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 103
That day I did not hunt, but stayed at home to follow the matter up.
Who acts: I · What happens: not hunt, stay, follow up · To what, where: day, home, matter
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hunt | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hunt | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hunt | advmod |
| 6 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stayed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stayed | cc |
| 9 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stayed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 follow | mark |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stayed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 follow | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 follow | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hunt | past · do-support | I | that day not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | home | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | follow up | to-infinitive | the matter | 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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