The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 36
Behind the bridge the road branched off into three ways.
Who acts: road · What happens: branch off · To what, where: bridge
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 bridge | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 branched | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 branched | nsubj |
| 6 | branched | branch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 branched | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ways | nummod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 branched | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 branched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | branch off | past | the road | the bridge | into three ways | vn differ-23.4 «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 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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