The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 81
“Your son, Prince Tahmasp, loves distractedly the Princess Mihr-afruz, daughter of King Quimus, son of Timus.”
Who acts: son · What happens: love · To what, where: Princess afruz
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 (son), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loves | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tahmasp | punct |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tahmasp | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 8 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | distractedly | distractedly | ADV | _ | 8 loves | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 afruz | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 afruz | compound |
| 12 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Princess | flat |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 afruz | punct |
| 14 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loves | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afruz | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | Quimus | Quimus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 son | punct |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afruz | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Timus | case |
| 23 | Timus | Timus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 loves | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 loves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love in a quote | present | Your son | the Princess afruz and daughter of King and son of Timus | distractedly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer afruz=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/1/81/