The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 51
“Noble king,” began the mother, “behold our daughter!
Who acts: Noble king · What happens: begin · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noble 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 daughter | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 daughter | punct |
| 11 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 daughter | discourse |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mother | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Noble king | the mother and our daughter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality |
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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