The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 39
He was now drenched in sweat, and he breathed with pain; and his horse’s tongue hung from its mouth with thirst.
Who acts: Prince, tongue · What happens: drench, breathe, hang · To what, where: Prince, mouth
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, tongue), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drenched | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drenched | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drenched | advmod |
| 4 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sweat | case |
| 6 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drenched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breathed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 breathed | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 breathed | nsubj |
| 10 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drenched | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathed | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tongue | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 18 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | nsubj |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drenched | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 thirst | case |
| 24 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drench | past · passive | Prince | now | in sweat | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in sweat=Theme | |||
| 2 | breathe | past | Prince | with pain | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | Prince's horse's tongue | place's mouth | with thirst | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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