The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 38
I was alone, I took my turban for a rope and my cap for a bucket.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, take · To what, where: turban
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 was | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 turban | nmod:poss |
| 8 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 rope | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rope | det |
| 11 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cap | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cap | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rope | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 bucket | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bucket | det |
| 17 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | I | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I | my turban | for a rope and my cap; for a bucket | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent turban=Theme for rope=Beneficiary |
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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