The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 12
The cap fell in the same place as before, and he walked on till he came to the spot where his brother had halted.
Who acts: cap, youth, brother · What happens: fall, walk, come, halt · To what, where: same place, spot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cap, youth, brother), 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 | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 place | amod |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walked | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 spot | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 halted | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 halted | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 halted | aux |
| 25 | halted | halt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 spot | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the cap | the same place | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | youth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | youth | the spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | halt | past · perfect | youth's brother | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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