The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 25
Next he unhooked the little bridge and put it under his right.
Who acts: door · What happens: unhook, put · To what, where: little bridge, bridge, right
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 (door), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 unhooked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 unhooked | nsubj |
| 3 | unhooked | unhook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bridge | amod |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unhooked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unhooked | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 put | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 right | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 right | nmod:poss |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unhooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unhook | past | door | the little bridge | next property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | door not said here | bridge | door's right | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under right=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.
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