The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 69
After Ball-Carrier had managed to drown the Bad One so that he could not do any more mischief, he forgot the way to his grandmother’s house, and could not find it again, though he searched everywhere.
Who acts: Carrier · What happens: manage, drown, not do, forget, not find, search · To what, where: Bad One, more mischief, way
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 Ball | case |
| 2 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 managed | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Carrier | punct |
| 4 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ball | conj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 managed | aux |
| 6 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drown | mark |
| 8 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 managed | xcomp |
| 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 drown | obj |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 do | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 drown | advcl |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mischief | det |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 mischief | amod |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgot | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 forgot | nsubj |
| 23 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 managed | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forgot | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 grandmother | case |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forgot | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 find | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 find | cc |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 find | advmod |
| 35 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 managed | parataxis |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 find | obj |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 find | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 searched | punct |
| 39 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 41 searched | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 searched | nsubj |
| 41 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 find | conj |
| 42 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 41 searched | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past · perfect | after Ball and Carrier | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drown | to-infinitive | the Bad One | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not do | could | Carrier | any more mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | Carrier | the way | to Carrier's grandmother's house | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not find | could | way | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 6 | search | past | Carrier | everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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