The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 99
His eyes had grown dim from fatigue, his wings flapped wearily and hardly bore him along, while the witch seemed as fresh as ever.
Who acts: eyes, wings, witch · What happens: grow, flap, bear, seem · To what, where: Carrier
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 (eyes, wings, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | xcomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 fatigue | case |
| 7 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grown | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 flapped | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wings | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flapped | nsubj |
| 11 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | parataxis |
| 12 | wearily | wearily | ADV | _ | 11 flapped | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bore | cc |
| 14 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 15 bore | advmod |
| 15 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 flapped | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bore | obj |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 bore | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seemed | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 seemed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 witch | det |
| 21 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seemed | nsubj |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bore | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 fresh | advmod |
| 24 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 fresh | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | Carrier's eyes | from fatigue; dim property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from fatigue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flap | past | Carrier's wings | wearily property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | past | Carrier's wings not said here | Carrier | along, hardly property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | seem | past | the witch | fresh property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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