The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 12
Very soon they all left the house together, and walked to the other hut, which the girl’s husband saw for the first time, as it was hid in a hollow.
Who acts: corner, husband, house · What happens: leave, walk, see, be · To what, where: house, other hut, hollow
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 (corner, husband, house), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 left | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 they | det |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hut | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hut | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hut | amod |
| 15 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 saw | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hut | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hid | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 hid | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 hid | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hid | cop |
| 31 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walked | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hollow | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 hollow | det |
| 34 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hid | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | corner | the house | soon, together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk | past | the other hut | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the girl's husband | the other hut | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | house | a hollow | hide 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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