The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 56
Very soon the fat which was to make the sauce rose to the surface, and Ball-Carrier, who was bobbing about from one side to the other, called out that Lung-Woman had better taste the broth, as he though that some salt should be added to it.
Who acts: fat, Ball, Lung Woman · What happens: be, rise, bob, call out, have, add · To what, where: surface, other, one side, better taste, salt, fat
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 (fat, Ball, Lung Woman), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 rose | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fat | det |
| 4 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 make | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sauce | det |
| 10 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 surface | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 surface | det |
| 14 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bobbing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bobbing | cc |
| 17 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bobbing | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Carrier | punct |
| 19 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Ball | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bobbing | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 bobbing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 bobbing | aux |
| 23 | bobbing | bob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 rose | advcl |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 bobbing | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 side | nummod |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bobbing | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bobbing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 called | punct |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 bobbing | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 called | compound:prt |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 had | mark |
| 35 | Lung | Lung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Woman | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Lung | punct |
| 37 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 called | advcl |
| 39 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 taste | amod |
| 40 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 broth | det |
| 42 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 added | punct |
| 44 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 added | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 though | nsubj |
| 46 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 as | conj |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 added | mark |
| 48 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 salt | det |
| 49 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 added | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 added | aux |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 added | aux:pass |
| 52 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rose | conj |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 it | case |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 added | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fat | make property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the fat | the surface | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bob | past · progressive | Ball and Carrier | the other | one side | about property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient | ||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | participle | Ball and Carrier not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | past | Lung Woman | better taste | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | should · passive | some salt | fat | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient |
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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