The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 39
And he lifted his right arm, from which she took the bridge, while the Bad One looked on, well pleased.
Who acts: ball, woman, Bad One · What happens: lift, take, look on · To what, where: right arm, bridge
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 (ball, woman, Bad One), 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 | _ | 3 lifted | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arm | amod |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 took | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bridge | det |
| 13 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 looked | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 One | det |
| 17 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 One | amod |
| 18 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADV | _ | 19 looked | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 22 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 23 pleased | discourse |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 looked | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | ball | ball's right arm | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | woman | the bridge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bridge=Theme from which=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look on | past | the Bad One | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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