The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 56
It was dinner time when the man awoke, and, jumping up hastily, he set out for home, where he found all the children gathered round a basin of thin soup, and pushing their wooden bowls forward, hoping to have the first spoonful.
Who acts: basket, man, Father, children · What happens: be, awake, jump up, set out, find, gather · To what, where: dinner time, wooden bowls, first spoonful · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (basket, man, Father, children), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 awoke | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awoke | nsubj |
| 8 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumping | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 jumping | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jumping | punct |
| 12 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 awoke | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 jumping | compound:prt |
| 14 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 12 jumping | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 awoke | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 found | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 children | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 children | det |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gathered | nsubj |
| 28 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | ccomp |
| 29 | round | round | ADP | _ | 31 basin | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 basin | det |
| 31 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gathered | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 soup | case |
| 33 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 soup | amod |
| 34 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 basin | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pushing | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 pushing | cc |
| 37 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 found | parataxis |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 bowls | nmod:poss |
| 39 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 bowls | amod |
| 40 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pushing | obj |
| 41 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 37 pushing | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hoping | punct |
| 43 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 pushing | advcl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 have | mark |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 hoping | xcomp |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 spoonful | det |
| 47 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 48 spoonful | amod |
| 48 | spoonful | spoonful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | basket | dinner time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | the man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump up | gerund | the man not said here | hastily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | past | Father | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Father | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | gather | past | all children | round a basin of thin soup | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | push | gerund | children's wooden bowls | forward property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | ||||
| 8 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the first spoonful | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoonful=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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