The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 110
Oh, I have seen it, and more than one betrothed maiden lives alone, broken-hearted.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: see, betroth, break · To what, where: sound, maiden lives
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 seen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 betrothed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 betrothed | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 one | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 more | fixed |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 betrothed | nsubj |
| 12 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | conj |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lives | amod |
| 14 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 betrothed | obj |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 betrothed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
| 19 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 broken | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | sound | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | betroth | past | one | maiden lives | alone property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 3 | break | participle | I not said here | hearted property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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