The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 89
So King Saman ordered all preparations for the journey to be made, and then Prince Tahmasp took his leave and set out, accompanied by some of the courtiers, and taking with him a string of two-humped and raven-eyed camels laden with jewels, and gold, and costly stuffs.
Who acts: King, Prince, eyed camels · What happens: order, make, take, set out, accompany, hump · To what, where: preparations, leave, string
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, Prince, eyed camels), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | Saman | Saman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 preparations | det |
| 6 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ordered | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 preparations | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 journey | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 took | advmod |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 17 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Prince | flat |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leave | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 accompanied | punct |
| 25 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 set | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 some | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 courtiers | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 courtiers | det |
| 30 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 some | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 taking | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 taking | cc |
| 33 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ordered | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 taking | obl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 string | det |
| 37 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taking | obj |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 humped | mark |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 humped | nummod |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 two | punct |
| 41 | humped | hump | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 string | acl:relcl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 laden | cc |
| 43 | raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 eyed | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 raven | punct |
| 45 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 camels | amod |
| 46 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 laden | nsubj |
| 47 | laden | laden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 humped | conj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 jewels | case |
| 49 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 laden | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 gold | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 gold | cc |
| 52 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taking | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 stuffs | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 stuffs | cc |
| 55 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 stuffs | amod |
| 56 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 taking | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | King | all preparations | for the journey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent preparation=Theme for journey=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Prince | Prince's leave | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accompany | participle | Prince not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take | gerund | King not said here | a string | with Prince; costly stuffs obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | |||
| 7 | hump | participle | a string not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | laden | present | eyed camels | with jewels | 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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