The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 100
When the king saw how very young the prince looked, and that he was still drinking of the fountain of wonder, he said: “O youth! leave aside this fancy which my daughter has conceived in the pride of her beauty.
Who acts: king, prince, youth, daughter · What happens: see, look, drink, say, leave, conceive · To what, where: fancy, pride, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, prince, youth, daughter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | advcl |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 young | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 young | advmod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 young | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drinking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drinking | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 drinking | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drinking | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drinking | aux |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 drinking | advmod |
| 17 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fountain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fountain | det |
| 20 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drinking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wonder | case |
| 22 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fountain | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 youth | punct |
| 28 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 29 youth | discourse |
| 29 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | nsubj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 youth | punct |
| 31 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 32 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 31 leave | advmod |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 fancy | det |
| 34 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leave | obj |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 conceived | obj |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 conceived | nsubj |
| 38 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 conceived | aux |
| 39 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 fancy | acl:relcl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 pride | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pride | det |
| 42 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 conceived | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 beauty | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 45 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pride | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king | young property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the prince | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drink | past · progressive | Prince | still | of the fountain of wonder | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of fountain=Source | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | infinitive | youth | this fancy | aside property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme | |||
| 6 | conceive in a quote | present · perfect | my daughter | this fancy | the pride of daughter's beauty | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 7 | pride in a quote | daughter's beauty | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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