The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 85
In a few minutes the Holy Man returned with a cock under his arm.
Who acts: Holy Man · What happens: return · To what, where: arm
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 (Holy Man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 returned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Man | det |
| 6 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 7 Man | compound |
| 7 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Holy Man | Father's arm | minute | with a cock | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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