The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 96
The sight of the drums stirred the fire of Prince Tahmasp’s love.
Who acts: sight, Tahmasp · What happens: stir, sight, fire, love · To what, where: fire, drums, love
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 (sight, Tahmasp), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stirred | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 drums | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 drums | det |
| 5 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sight | nmod |
| 6 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stirred | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tahmasp | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Tahmasp | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fire | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | past | the sight of the drums | the fire of Tahmasp Prince's love | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sight | the drums | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | fire | Tahmasp Prince's love | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | love | Tahmasp Prince | nom 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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