The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 49
“He will do now,” said the Bad One, who came constantly to see how he was getting on.
Who acts: ball, Bad One · What happens: do, say, come, see, get on · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 One | det |
| 10 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 One | amod |
| 11 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 One | acl:relcl |
| 15 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 getting | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 getting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 getting | aux |
| 21 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 getting | compound:prt |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | ball | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bad One | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the Bad One | constantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the Bad One not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | get on | past · progressive | ball | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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