The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 105
When I seemed safely off Gul got up and went to the stable as her custom was.
Who acts: I, Gul, custom · What happens: seem, get up, go, be · To what, where: stable
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, Gul, custom), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | advcl |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 seemed | advmod |
| 6 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 custom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | I | off property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | Gul | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Gul not said here | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | be | past | Gul's custom | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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