The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 82
His parents were delighted to hear of his good fortune, and his father gave him his own sword, which was growing rusty for want of use, while his mother saw that his leather jerkin was in order.
Who acts: parents, father, own sword, mother, leather jerkin · What happens: be, hear, give, grow, see, want · To what, where: own sword, Rosald, order, use · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, father, own sword, mother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fortune | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sword | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sword | amod |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 growing | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 growing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 growing | aux |
| 23 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sword | acl |
| 24 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 growing | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 want | case |
| 26 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 growing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 use | case |
| 28 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 saw | mark |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gave | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 order | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 jerkin | nmod:poss |
| 36 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 jerkin | compound |
| 37 | jerkin | jerkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 order | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 order | cop |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 order | case |
| 40 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Rosald's parents | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Rosald's parents not said here | of Rosald's good fortune | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fortune=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Rosald's father | Rosald's own sword | Rosald | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | past · progressive | Rosald's own sword | for want of use; rusty property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Rosald's mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Rosald's leather jerkin | order | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | want | use | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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