The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 37
After great search I discovered a well in a place so secret that neither bird nor beast nor man could find it without labour.
Who acts: I, bird · What happens: discover, find · To what, where: well, place
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, bird), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 search | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 search | amod |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 discovered | nsubj |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 secret | advmod |
| 12 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 discovered | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 find | mark |
| 14 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | nsubj |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 beast | cc |
| 17 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | conj |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 man | cc |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bird | conj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 secret | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 labour | case |
| 24 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 find | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | I | a well | a place | after great search | secret property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent well=Topic | |
| 2 | find | could | neither bird nor beast nor man | well | without labour | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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