The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 24
A band of fair girls came in and stood round it in waiting.
Who acts: band · What happens: come in, stand, wait
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 (band), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 band | det |
| 2 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 girls | case |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girls | amod |
| 5 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 band | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 waiting | mark |
| 13 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | a band of fair girls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | a band of fair girls not said here | round band | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | a band of fair girls not said here | 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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