The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 91
But with the first step Ball-Carrier changed himself into a wolf and for a long way kept ahead.
What happens: change, keep · To what, where: Carrier, wolf, long 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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 changed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 step | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 step | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 step | amod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 6 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Carrier | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ball | punct |
| 8 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 step | nmod |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 changed | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 wolf | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 way | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wolf | conj |
| 19 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 way | acl |
| 20 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 19 kept | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Carrier | a wolf and a long way | with the first step Ball Carrier | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent himself=Theme with step=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | keep | participle | a long way not said here | ahead property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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