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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 59

My eldest son heard from travellers that in Turkistan, on the Chinese frontier, there is a king named Quimus, the son of Timus, and that he has an only child, a daughter named Mihr-afruz,[5] who, under all the azure heaven, is unrivalled for beauty.

Who acts: King, travellers · What happens: hear, name, have, be · To what, where: eldest son, travellers, king, only child, daughter, Turkistan

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 (King, travellers), 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

nmod:possamodaclcaseoblnsubjcaseoblpunctcasedetamodappospunctexpladvcl:relcldetnsubjaclxcomppunctdetapposcasenmodpunctccmarknsubjconjdetamodobjpunctdetconjaclxcomppunctlistpunctpunctconjpunctnmodpunctcasedet:predetdetcompoundnmodpunctcopacl:relclcaseoblpunctrootMyPRONeldestADJsonNOUNheardVERBfromADPtravellersNOUNthatPRONinADPTurkistanPROPN,PUNCTonADPtheDETChineseADJfrontierNOUN,PUNCTtherePRONisAUXaDETkingNOUNnamedVERBQuimusPROPN,PUNCTtheDETsonNOUNofADPTimusPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJhePRONhasVERBanDETonlyADJchildNOUN,PUNCTaDETdaughterNOUNnamedVERBMihrPROPN-PUNCTafruzNOUN,PUNCT[PUNCT5NUM]PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCTunderADPallDETtheDETazureNOUNheavenNOUN,PUNCTisAUXunrivalledADJforADPbeautyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 sonnmod:poss
2eldesteldADJDegree=Sup3 sonamod
3sonsonNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
4heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 sonacl
5fromfromADP_6 travellerscase
6travellerstravellerNOUNNumber=Plur4 heardobl
7thatthatPRONPronType=Rel55 unrivallednsubj
8ininADP_9 Turkistancase
9TurkistanTurkistanPROPNNumber=Sing55 unrivalledobl
10,,PUNCT_14 frontierpunct
11ononADP_14 frontiercase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 frontierdet
13ChineseChineseADJDegree=Pos14 frontieramod
14frontierfrontierNOUNNumber=Sing9 Turkistanappos
15,,PUNCT_9 Turkistanpunct
16theretherePRONPronType=Dem17 isexpl
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 Turkistanadvcl:relcl
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 kingdet
19kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing17 isnsubj
20namednameVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 kingacl
21QuimusQuimusPROPNNumber=Sing20 namedxcomp
22,,PUNCT_24 sonpunct
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 sondet
24sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing21 Quimusappos
25ofofADP_26 Timuscase
26TimusTimusPROPNNumber=Sing24 sonnmod
27,,PUNCT_31 haspunct
28andandCCONJ_31 hascc
29thatthatSCONJ_31 hasmark
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 hasnsubj
31hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin17 isconj
32anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 childdet
33onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos34 childamod
34childchildNOUNNumber=Sing31 hasobj
35,,PUNCT_37 daughterpunct
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 daughterdet
37daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing34 childconj
38namednameVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass37 daughteracl
39MihrMihrPROPNNumber=Sing38 namedxcomp
40--PUNCT_39 Mihrpunct
41afruzafruzNOUNNumber=Sing39 Mihrlist
42,,PUNCT_44 5punct
43[[PUNCT_44 5punct
4455NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card34 childconj
45]]PUNCT_44 5punct
46whowhoPRONPronType=Rel44 5nmod
47,,PUNCT_46 whopunct
48underunderADP_52 heavencase
49allallDETPronType=Tot52 heavendet:predet
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 heavendet
51azureazureNOUNNumber=Sing52 heavencompound
52heavenheavenNOUNNumber=Sing46 whonmod
53,,PUNCT_9 Turkistanpunct
54isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin55 unrivalledcop
55unrivalledunrivalledADJDegree=Pos6 travellersacl:relcl
56forforADP_57 beautycase
57beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing55 unrivalledobl
58..PUNCT_3 sonpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearparticipleMy eldest son not said heretravellersvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from traveller=Source
2nameparticiplea king not said herevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3havepresentKinga only child and a daughtervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4nameparticiplea daughter not said herevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5ispresenttravellersTurkistanfor beauty; unrivalled propertytree 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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