The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 29
Once upon a time a great king of the East, named Saman-lalposh,[2] had three brave and clever sons—Tahmasp, Qamas, and Almas-ruh-baksh.
Who acts: Almas · What happens: name, have, baksh · To what, where: great king, three brave sons
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 (Almas), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 named | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 named | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 named | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 East | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 East | det |
| 10 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 named | punct |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | Saman | Saman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lalposh | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Saman | punct |
| 15 | lalposh | lalposh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 18 2 | punct |
| 18 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 had | discourse |
| 19 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 18 2 | punct |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 lalposh | conj |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 sons | nummod |
| 22 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sons | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clever | cc |
| 24 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brave | conj |
| 25 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tahmasp | punct |
| 27 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sons | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Qamas | punct |
| 29 | Qamas | Qamas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Tahmasp | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 baksh | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 baksh | cc |
| 32 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 baksh | nsubj |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Almas | punct |
| 34 | ruh | ruh | INTJ | _ | 36 baksh | discourse |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 baksh | punct |
| 36 | baksh | baksh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Tahmasp | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle · passive | a great king of the East | time | once property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | three brave sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||||
| 3 | baksh | Almas | 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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