The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 104
Then with a shudder he saw that they were feet no longer, but bird’s claws.
Who acts: water, feet · What happens: see, be · To what, where: claws, feet
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, feet), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 shudder | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shudder | det |
| 4 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 feet | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feet | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 feet | cop |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obj |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 feet | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 claws | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 claws | cc |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 claws | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 bird | case |
| 17 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | water | bird's claws | then | with a shudder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | is a | past | feet = foot | feet | long property | 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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