The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 45
And Ball-Carrier stepped down oft the platform, and brought his club and bow and arrows out of the hut, and set out, for the other side of the world, behind the old woman.
Who acts: Ball Carrier · What happens: step down, bring, arrow, set out · To what, where: oft platform, club, hut
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 (Ball Carrier), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stepped | cc |
| 2 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Carrier | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ball | punct |
| 4 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | nsubj |
| 5 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 stepped | compound:prt |
| 7 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 platform | amod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 platform | det |
| 9 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stepped | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stepped | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 club | nmod:poss |
| 14 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bow | cc |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 club | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arrows | cc |
| 18 | arrows | arrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 brought | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 hut | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hut | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hut | det |
| 22 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrows | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stepped | ccomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 set | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 side | punct |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 side | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 side | amod |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 side | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 woman | punct |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 woman | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 woman | det |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 woman | amod |
| 39 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | vocative |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step down | past | Ball Carrier | the oft platform | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Ball Carrier not said here | Carrier's club and bow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arrow | present | Ball Carrier not said here | the hut | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | Ball Carrier not said here | the old woman vocative | 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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