The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 55
The kettle soon began to sing and bubble, and Ball Carrier was lifted in.
Who acts: kettle · What happens: begin, sing, lift in · To what, where: Ball Carrier
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 (kettle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kettle | det |
| 2 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 began | advmod |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sing | mark |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bubble | cc |
| 8 | bubble | bubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 11 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Carrier | compound |
| 12 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lifted | aux:pass |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 began | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 lifted | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the kettle | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the kettle not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift in | past · passive | Ball Carrier | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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