The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 48
His face was kind, and wise and thoughtful, and he came on and spoke to the prince.
Who acts: face, foot · What happens: be, come on, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (face, foot), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wise | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wise | cc |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kind | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thoughtful | cc |
| 9 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kind | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | foot's face | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | foot's face not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | foot's face not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come on | past | foot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | foot not said here | to the prince | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to prince=Co-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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