The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 105
Then the prince went to his own quarters and was treated as became his station.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go, treat, become · To what, where: own quarters, station
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 (prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 quarters | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quarters | amod |
| 8 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 treated | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 treated | aux:pass |
| 11 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 became | mark |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 treated | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 station | nmod:poss |
| 15 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the prince | Prince's own quarters | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to quarter=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | treat | past · passive | the prince not said here | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | |||||
| 3 | become | past | the prince not said here | Prince's station | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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