The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 66
When at last I saw that she was a real girl, I returned thanks that I, the runner, had come to my goal, and that I, the seeker, had found my treasure.
Who acts: I, trace, my · What happens: see, be, return, come, find, treasure · To what, where: last, real girl, thanks, treasure
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, trace, my), 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 | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 returned | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 girl | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 girl | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 girl | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 come | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 runner | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 runner | det |
| 20 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 I | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 runner | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 thanks | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 goal | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 goal | nmod:poss |
| 26 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 come | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 found | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seeker | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 seeker | det |
| 33 | seeker | seeker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 I | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 seeker | punct |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 returned | conj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 38 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 found | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | trace | a real girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | past | I | thanks | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | I | thanks | to my goal | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | I | my treasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 6 | treasure | my | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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