The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 93
So Ball-Carrier took the shape of a pigeon and flew rapidly past her, but in a little while she was in front again and the end of the prairie was in sight.
Who acts: Ball, sun · What happens: take, fly, be · To what, where: shape, front, sight
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, sun), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ball | punct |
| 4 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ball | flat |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shape | det |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pigeon | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pigeon | det |
| 10 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shape | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 13 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | past | past | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sight | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 sight | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 little | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sight | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 front | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 front | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 front | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 little | nmod |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 front | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 end | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 front | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 prairie | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 prairie | det |
| 32 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 end | nmod |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sight | cop |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 sight | case |
| 35 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ball | the shape of a pigeon | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | Ball not said here | past sun; rapidly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past she=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | sun | front and the end of the prairie | again | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | sight | in a little | tree rules |
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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