The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 5
And the king fell on his neck and kissed him, and cried joyfully that he was the “bravest knight in all the world, and that a feast should be made for him and Rosald, and that the great deed should be proclaimed throughout the kingdom.”
Who acts: king · What happens: fall, kiss, cry, be, make, proclaim · To what, where: neck, king, bravest knight, world, feast, great deed · 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 (king), 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 | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 neck | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 neck | nmod:poss |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | cc |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kissed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 14 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 knight | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knight | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 knight | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 knight | det |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 knight | punct |
| 20 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 knight | amod |
| 21 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 world | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knight | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 made | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 feast | det |
| 30 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 made | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 made | aux:pass |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Rosald | cc |
| 37 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 him | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 proclaimed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 proclaimed | cc |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 proclaimed | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 deed | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 deed | amod |
| 43 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 proclaimed | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 proclaimed | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 proclaimed | aux:pass |
| 46 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | parataxis |
| 47 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 49 kingdom | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 kingdom | det |
| 49 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 proclaimed | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the king | king's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | the king not said here | king | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the king not said here | joyfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | king | the bravest knight | all world | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | should · passive | a feast | for king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | proclaim in a quote | should · passive | the great deed | throughout the kingdom | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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