The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 32
The whole road was covered with them, and the banks on each side were beginning to disappear.
Who acts: banks · What happens: cover, begin, disappear · To what, where: whole road
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 (banks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 road | amod |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 covered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beginning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beginning | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 banks | det |
| 11 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beginning | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 side | det |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 banks | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beginning | aux |
| 16 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 covered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 disappear | mark |
| 18 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 beginning | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the whole road | with fishes = fish | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past · progressive | the banks on each side | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | disappear | to-infinitive | the banks on each side not said here | 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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