The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 90
“When the sun touches the trunk of that tree we will start,” said she, as they both stood side by side.
Who acts: sun, we, miles · What happens: touch, start, say, stand · To what, where: trunk, tree, side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sun, we, miles), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 touches | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | nsubj |
| 5 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trunk | det |
| 7 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touches | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trunk | nmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 start | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 start | aux |
| 13 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tree | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 touches | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 touches | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 stood | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | both | both | ADV | _ | 22 stood | advmod |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 side | case |
| 25 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch in a quote | present | the sun | the trunk of that tree | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | start in a quote | future | we | that tree not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | miles = mile | side | by side; both property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination |
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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