The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 104
His wife and all the children were waiting for him at the door, and as soon as she caught sight of him she broke out:
Who acts: children, wife · What happens: wait, catch, break out, sight · To what, where: door, sight, cock
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 (children, wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 broke | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waiting | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 children | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 children | det |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 waiting | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waiting | aux |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wife | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waiting | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 broke | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 broke | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 soon | advmod |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 broke | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 caught | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caught | nsubj |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 soon | advcl |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sight | nmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 broke | nsubj |
| 25 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 broke | compound:prt |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | all children | the door | for cock | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past | wife | sight of cock | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break out | past | cock's wife | soon property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sight | cock | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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