The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 83
A mist of sadness clouded the king’s mind, and he said to his son: “If this thing is so, I will in the first place send a courier with friendly letters to King Quimus, and will ask the hand of his daughter for you.
Who acts: mist, King, thing · What happens: cloud, say, be, send, ask, mist · To what, where: mind, son, courier, King, first place, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mist, King, thing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mist | det |
| 2 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clouded | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sadness | case |
| 4 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mist | nmod |
| 5 | clouded | cloud | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clouded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clouded | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 send | punct |
| 19 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | mark |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 thing | det |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 so | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 so | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 will | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 so | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 will | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 send | aux |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 place | amod |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obl |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 courier | det |
| 33 | courier | courier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 letters | case |
| 35 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 letters | amod |
| 36 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 send | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 King | case |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 send | obl |
| 39 | Quimus | Quimus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 King | flat |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ask | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 ask | cc |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 ask | aux |
| 43 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 send | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hand | det |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ask | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 daughter | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 48 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hand | nmod |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 you | case |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 ask | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clouded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cloud | past | a mist of sadness | the king's mind | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | King's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this thing | so property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | future | a courier | King | the first place | with friendly letters | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent courier=Theme in place=Destination | ||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | the hand of King's daughter | for King's son = son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | mist | sadness | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | mind | the king | nom mind «cognition 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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