The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 93
He saw hanging from its battlements many heads, but it had not the least effect upon him that these were heads of men of rank; he listened to no advice about laying aside his fancy, but rode up to the gate and on into the heart of the city.
Who acts: citadel, earth · What happens: see, hang, have, be, listen, lay · To what, where: battlements, least effect, heads, gate
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 (citadel, earth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 battlements | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 battlements | nmod:poss |
| 6 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hanging | obl |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heads | amod |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 battlements | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 effect | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 effect | det |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 effect | amod |
| 16 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 effect | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 heads | mark |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 heads | det |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heads | cop |
| 22 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 effect | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 men | case |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 heads | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rank | case |
| 26 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 men | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 listened | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 listened | nsubj |
| 29 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 advice | case |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 advice | det |
| 32 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 listened | obl |
| 33 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 34 laying | mark |
| 34 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 listened | advcl |
| 35 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 37 fancy | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 laying | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rode | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 rode | cc |
| 40 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 rode | compound:prt |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 gate | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 gate | det |
| 44 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rode | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 heart | cc |
| 46 | on | on | ADV | _ | 49 heart | advmod |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 heart | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 heart | det |
| 49 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rode | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 city | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 city | det |
| 52 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 heart | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | citadel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | citadel not said here | earth's battlements and many heads | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | earth | the least effect | upon citadel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | this heads | of men of rank | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | listen | past | citadel | to no advice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lay | gerund | citadel not said here | aside citadel's fancy | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | ride up | past | the gate | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory | |||||
| 8 | fancy | citadel | nom fancy «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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