The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 26
Asmund and Signy Rübezahl Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted Tale of a Tortoise and of a Mischievous Monkey The Knights of the Fish
Who acts: Asmund Rübezahl Story · What happens: be
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 (Asmund Rübezahl Story), 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 | Asmund | Asmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Story | compound |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Signy | cc |
| 3 | Signy | Signy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Asmund | conj |
| 4 | Rübezahl | Rübezahl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Story | compound |
| 5 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Stronger | nsubj |
| 6 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Story | nmod |
| 9 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 Stronger | nsubj |
| 10 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 Stronger | aux |
| 11 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Stronger | cop |
| 12 | Stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Story | compound |
| 14 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Story | compound |
| 15 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Stronger | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Dâd | case |
| 17 | Wali | Wali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dâd | compound |
| 18 | Dâd | Dâd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Story | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Tale | det |
| 20 | Simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Hearted | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Simple | punct |
| 22 | Hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Tale | amod |
| 23 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dâd | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Tortoise | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Tortoise | det |
| 26 | Tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Tale | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Monkey | cc |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Monkey | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 Monkey | det |
| 30 | Mischievous | Mischievous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Monkey | compound |
| 31 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Tale | conj |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Knights | det |
| 33 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 Monkey | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Fish | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Fish | det |
| 36 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Knights | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Asmund Rübezahl Story of the King | Than Fate Story of Wali Dâd obl; strong property | tree rules |
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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