The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 21
The tale of “What the Rose did to the Cypress,” is translated out of a Persian manuscript by Mrs. Beveridge.
Who acts: Rose, Persian manuscript · What happens: do, translate · To what, where: tale
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 (Rose, Persian manuscript), 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 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 What | case |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 What | punct |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 tale | nmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rose | det |
| 7 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 What | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Cypress | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cypress | det |
| 11 | Cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 tale | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tale | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 translated | aux:pass |
| 15 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 manuscript | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 manuscript | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 manuscript | det |
| 19 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 manuscript | amod |
| 20 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 translated | obl:agent |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Mrs. | case |
| 22 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 manuscript | nmod |
| 23 | Beveridge | Beveridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Mrs. | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | the Rose | to the Cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | translate | present · passive | a Persian manuscript by Mrs. | the tale | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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