The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 23
Then, without giving the woman time to go to the larder, he got up from his chair, and rolled, staggering from hunger, towards the kitchen.
Who acts: sight · What happens: give, go, get up, roll, stagger · To what, where: larder, chair, kitchen, hunger
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 (sight), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 4 giving | mark |
| 4 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 got | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | compound |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 giving | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 larder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 larder | det |
| 12 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 giving | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 chair | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 chair | nmod:poss |
| 19 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rolled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rolled | cc |
| 22 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 staggering | punct |
| 24 | staggering | stagger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 rolled | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 hunger | case |
| 26 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 staggering | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kitchen | punct |
| 28 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 30 kitchen | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kitchen | det |
| 30 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | sight not said here | time | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | sight not said here | the larder | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to larder=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | sight | sight's chair | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from chair=Destination | |||
| 4 | roll | past | sight not said here | the kitchen | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards kitchen=Destination | ||||
| 5 | stagger | gerund | sight not said here | hunger | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hunger=Trajectory |
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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