The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 109
And as they returned weeping to the hut they caught a glimpse of the ball rolling away down the path back to the old grandmother.
Who acts: children, ball · What happens: return, weep, catch, roll away, glimpse · To what, where: glimpse, path, ball
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, ball), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 returned | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeping | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hut | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 glimpse | det |
| 12 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ball | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 glimpse | nmod |
| 16 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ball | acl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 rolling | advmod |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolling | obl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 path | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 grandmother | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 grandmother | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grandmother | amod |
| 25 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | children = child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weep | gerund | children = child not said here | to the hut | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent to hut=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | children = child | a glimpse of the ball | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll away | gerund | the ball not said here | the path | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down path=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | glimpse | the ball | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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