The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 93
Without stopping to think, he went straight in, and found the innkeeper’s wife in the kitchen making a cake.
Who acts: tavern · What happens: stop, think, go, find, make · To what, where: wife, kitchen, cake
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 (tavern), 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 | Without | without | SCONJ | _ | 2 stopping | mark |
| 2 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 think | mark |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stopping | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopping | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 9 in | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 innkeeper | det |
| 14 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 innkeeper | case |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kitchen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kitchen | det |
| 19 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 found | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cake | det |
| 22 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | tavern not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | tavern not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | tavern | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | tavern not said here | the innkeeper's wife | the kitchen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | |||
| 5 | make | gerund | tavern not said here | a cake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cake=Product |
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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