The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 71
Then Ball-Carrier remembered his parents and went back to them.
Who acts: Ball · What happens: remember, go back · To what, where: parents
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), 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 | 5 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Carrier | punct |
| 4 | Carrier | Carrier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ball | conj |
| 5 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 remembered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remembered | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Ball and Carrier | Carrier's parents | then | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go back | past | Ball and Carrier not said here | parents = parent | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to they=Result |
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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