The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 43
And as he fell he knew that it was not alone the glory that was his rightfully which he gave up, but the hand of the queen that was more precious still.
Who acts: Rosald, tourney, glory, queen · What happens: fall, know, not be, be · To what, where: glory · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosald, tourney, glory, queen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 knew | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 fell | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knew | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 glory | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glory | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glory | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 glory | advmod |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 glory | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 glory | det |
| 13 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gave | obj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gave | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rightfully | rightfully | ADV | _ | 20 gave | advmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glory | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 gave | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hand | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 hand | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 precious | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 precious | cop |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 precious | advmod |
| 32 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 queen | acl:relcl |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 32 precious | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Rosald | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | Rosald | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | tourney | the glory | alone property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | the glory | the hand of the queen obl; give, rightfully property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the queen | still | precious property | 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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