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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 80

At last his confidants searched his heart and lifted the veil from the face of his love, and then set the matter before his father, King Saman-lal-posh.

Who acts: last confidants, arrow · What happens: search, lift, set, love · To what, where: heart, veil, face, matter

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 (last confidants, arrow), 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

caseamodnmod:possnsubjnmod:possobjccconjdetobjcasedetoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctccadvmodadvcldetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctapposflatpunctamodpunctconjpunctrootAtADPlastADJhisPRONconfidantsNOUNsearchedVERBhisPRONheartNOUNandCCONJliftedVERBtheDETveilNOUNfromADPtheDETfaceNOUNofADPhisPRONloveNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVsetVERBtheDETmatterNOUNbeforeADPhisPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTKingPROPNSamanPROPN-PUNCTlalADJ-PUNCTposhADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos4 confidantsamod
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 confidantsnmod:poss
4confidantsconfidantNOUNNumber=Plur5 searchednsubj
5searchedsearchVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 heartnmod:poss
7heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing5 searchedobj
8andandCCONJ_9 liftedcc
9liftedliftVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 searchedconj
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 veildet
11veilveilNOUNNumber=Sing9 liftedobj
12fromfromADP_14 facecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 facedet
14facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing9 liftedobl
15ofofADP_17 lovecase
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 lovenmod:poss
17loveloveNOUNNumber=Sing14 facenmod
18,,PUNCT_21 setpunct
19andandCCONJ_21 setcc
20thenthenADVPronType=Dem21 setadvmod
21setsetVERBVerbForm=Inf5 searchedadvcl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 matterdet
23mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing21 setobj
24beforebeforeADP_26 fathercase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 fathernmod:poss
26fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing21 setobl
27,,PUNCT_28 Kingpunct
28KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing26 fatherappos
29SamanSamanPROPNNumber=Sing28 Kingflat
30--PUNCT_31 lalpunct
31lallalADJDegree=Pos28 Kingamod
32--PUNCT_33 poshpunct
33poshposhADJDegree=Pos31 lalconj
34..PUNCT_5 searchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1searchpastarrow's last confidantsarrow's heartvn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Location
2liftpastarrow's last confidants not said herethe veilthe face of arrow's lovevn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent veil=Theme from face=Destination
3setinfinitivearrow's last confidants not said herethe matterbefore arrow's father; thenvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent matter=Theme before father=Destination
4lovearrownom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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