The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 97
Bird after bird he tried, but every time the witch gained on him and took the lead.
Who acts: Bird, witch · What happens: try, gain, take · To what, where: lead
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 (Bird, witch), 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 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 bird | case |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bird | nmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gained | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gained | cc |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gained | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 witch | det |
| 11 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gained | nsubj |
| 12 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tried | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gained | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gained | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lead | det |
| 18 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Bird after bird | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gain | past | the witch | time | on crow | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | take | past | the witch not said here | the lead | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme |
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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