The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 61
There was not a sign of anyone or anything, so he started for the river, where he saw Ball Carrier sitting quietly on the other side.
Who acts: sign, Ball Carrier · What happens: not be, start, see, sit, sign · To what, where: Ball Carrier, other side, anyone
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 (sign, Ball Carrier), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 sign | nmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 anything | cc |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 anyone | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 started | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 started | conj |
| 21 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Carrier | compound |
| 22 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 side | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 side | amod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | past | a sign of anyone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | past | sign | for the river | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | see | past | sign | Ball Carrier | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | Ball Carrier not said here | the other side | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | |||
| 5 | sign | anyone | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=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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