The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 37
Br-r-r, so he began to beat his drum.
Who acts: Br · What happens: begin, beat · To what, where: r r, drum
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Br), 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 | Br | br | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 r | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Br | punct |
| 3 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 r | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 r | punct |
| 5 | r | r | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 r | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 beat | mark |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 drum | nmod:poss |
| 13 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 r | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Br | r r not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive | Br not said here | Br's drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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