The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 68
How Ball-carrier Finished His Task
Who acts: Ball carrier · What happens: finish · To what, where: Task
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 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 Finished | advmod |
| 2 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 carrier | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ball | punct |
| 4 | carrier | carrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Finished | nsubj |
| 5 | Finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Task | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Task | Task | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Finished | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | Ball carrier | Carrier's Task | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality task=Eventuality |
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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