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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 son | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 travellers | case |
| 6 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 unrivalled | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Turkistan | case |
| 9 | Turkistan | Turkistan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 unrivalled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 frontier | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 frontier | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 frontier | det |
| 13 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 frontier | amod |
| 14 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Turkistan | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Turkistan | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Turkistan | advcl:relcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 is | nsubj |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 king | acl |
| 21 | Quimus | Quimus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 son | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Quimus | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Timus | case |
| 26 | Timus | Timus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 has | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 has | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 is | conj |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 child | det |
| 33 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 child | amod |
| 34 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 daughter | punct |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 daughter | det |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 child | conj |
| 38 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 daughter | acl |
| 39 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 named | xcomp |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mihr | punct |
| 41 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Mihr | list |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 5 | punct |
| 43 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 44 5 | punct |
| 44 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 child | conj |
| 45 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 44 5 | punct |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 5 | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 who | punct |
| 48 | under | under | ADP | _ | 52 heaven | case |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 heaven | det:predet |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 heaven | det |
| 51 | azure | azure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 heaven | compound |
| 52 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 who | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Turkistan | punct |
| 54 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 unrivalled | cop |
| 55 | unrivalled | unrivalled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 travellers | acl:relcl |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 beauty | case |
| 57 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 unrivalled | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | participle | My eldest son not said here | travellers | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from traveller=Source | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a king not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | King | a only child and a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a daughter not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | travellers | Turkistan | for beauty; unrivalled 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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