The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 76
Long, long ago, far, far away on the other side of the world, some young men left the camp where they lived to get some food for their wives and children.
Who acts: young men, parents · What happens: leave, live, get · To what, where: camp, food
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 (young men, parents), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Long | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 away | punct |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 away | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 men | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 far | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 camp | det |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 lived | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 camp | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 lived | xcomp |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 food | det |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 wives | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wives | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 get | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 children | cc |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wives | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | some young men | the camp | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | parents = parent | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | some food | for parents's wives and children | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |
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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