The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 57
“Learn and know, O young man! that I am King Janangir[4] of Babylon, and that once I had army and servants, family and treasure; untold wealth and belongings.
Who acts: you, faqir · What happens: learn, know, be, have · To what, where: untold wealth, King Janangir, army
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 (you, faqir), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
| 2 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Learn | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 6 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 man | case |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Learn | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Janangir | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Janangir | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Janangir | cop |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Janangir | compound |
| 14 | Janangir | Janangir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Learn | obl |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 4 | punct |
| 16 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 Janangir | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 4 | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Babylon | case |
| 19 | Babylon | Babylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 4 | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 once | mark |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 had | advcl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Learn | parataxis |
| 26 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 servants | cc |
| 28 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 army | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 family | punct |
| 30 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 army | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 treasure | cc |
| 32 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 army | conj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 wealth | punct |
| 34 | untold | untold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 wealth | amod |
| 35 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Learn | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 belongings | cc |
| 37 | belongings | belonging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wealth | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | imperative | you not said here | untold wealth and belongings | of young man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of man=Topic | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this faqir = faqir | King Janangir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | this faqir = faqir | army and servants and family and treasure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
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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