The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 33
At the place where the prince intended to hunt he saw a most beautiful deer.
Who acts: prince · What happens: intend, hunt, see · To what, where: place, beautiful deer
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intended | obl |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 intended | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intended | nsubj |
| 7 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hunt | mark |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 intended | xcomp |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hunt | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deer | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deer | amod |
| 15 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past | the prince | the place | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Prince | a beautiful deer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus |
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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