The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 58
The Most High God gave me seven sons who grew up well versed in all princely arts.
Who acts: Most High God, seven sons · What happens: give, grow up, verse · To what, where: seven sons, me, princely arts
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 (Most High God, seven sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 God | det |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 God | amod |
| 3 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 God | amod |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 sons | nummod |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sons | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 grew | compound:prt |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 versed | advmod |
| 13 | versed | verse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 arts | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 arts | det |
| 16 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arts | amod |
| 17 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 versed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Most High God | seven sons | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow up | past | seven sons | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | verse | participle | seven sons not said here | all princely arts | well property | 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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