The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 10
By-and-by he grew weary of always working, and on Sundays he lay a long while in bed, instead of going to church.
Who acts: Father · What happens: grow, work, lie, go · To what, where: bed, church
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 grew | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grew | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 working | mark |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 working | advmod |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 weary | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Sundays | case |
| 15 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 while | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 while | amod |
| 20 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 going | punct |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 going | mark |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 instead | fixed |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 lay | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 church | mark |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 going | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Father | weary property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | gerund | Father not said here | always property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | Father | bed | sunday; while | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 4 | go | gerund | Father not said here | church | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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