The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 4
One morning the girl, who had had no supper and no breakfast, wandered off to look for cranberries, and though she was quite near home was astonished at noticing a large hut, which certainly had not been there when last she had come that way.
Who acts: girl, large hut · What happens: have, wander off, look, be, notice, not be · To what, where: supper, home, large hut, way
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 (girl, large hut), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | acl:relcl |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wandered | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 supper | det |
| 10 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 breakfast | cc |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 breakfast | det |
| 13 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 supper | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
| 15 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 wandered | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wandered | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 cranberries | case |
| 20 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 astonished | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 astonished | cc |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 astonished | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 astonished | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 astonished | cop |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 astonished | advmod |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 astonished | obl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 astonished | cop |
| 30 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wandered | parataxis |
| 31 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 32 noticing | mark |
| 32 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 astonished | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hut | det |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 hut | amod |
| 35 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 noticing | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 there | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 there | nsubj |
| 38 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 42 there | advmod |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 there | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 there | advmod |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 there | cop |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 hut | advmod |
| 43 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 44 last | advmod |
| 44 | last | last | ADV | _ | 47 come | advmod |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 come | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 come | aux |
| 47 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 there | conj |
| 48 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 way | det |
| 49 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 come | obl:unmarked |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the girl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the girl | no supper and no breakfast | morning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient | |||
| 3 | wander off | past | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | for cranberries | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cranberry=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | girl | home | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | notice | gerund | girl not said here | a large hut | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | not is | past · perfect | a large hut | certainly, there property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come | past | girl | that way | last property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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