The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 130
The boy took the ball and put it in a bag.
Who acts: boy · What happens: take, put · To what, where: ball, bag
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ball | det |
| 5 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bag | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bag | det |
| 11 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the boy | the ball | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | the boy not said here | ball | a bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bag=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/6/130/