The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 85
When he had been married about a year, some of his subjects, inhabiting a distant group of islands, revolted against his laws, and it became needful for him to leave his wife and go in person to settle their disputes.
Who acts: some, group, king, islands · What happens: marry, inhabit, revolt, become, leave, go · To what, where: king, distant group, wife, disputes
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 (some, group, king, islands), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 married | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 married | aux:pass |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inhabiting | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 inhabiting | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 subjects | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 13 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inhabiting | punct |
| 15 | inhabiting | inhabit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 married | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 group | det |
| 17 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 group | amod |
| 18 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inhabiting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 islands | case |
| 20 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 group | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 revolted | punct |
| 22 | revolted | revolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 group | acl |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 laws | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 laws | nmod:poss |
| 25 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 revolted | obl:agent |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 became | cc |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 became | nsubj |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 30 | needful | needful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 became | xcomp |
| 31 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 leave | mark |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 leave | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 leave | mark |
| 34 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 became | xcomp |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wife | nmod:poss |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leave | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 go | cc |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 leave | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 person | case |
| 40 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 go | obl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 settle | mark |
| 42 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 go | advcl |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 disputes | nmod:poss |
| 44 | disputes | dispute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 settle | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · perfect · passive | king | year | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | inhabit | gerund | some | a distant group of islands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | revolt | participle | a distant group of islands not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | become | past | group | needful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | king | king's wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | king not said here | in person | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in person=Location | ||||
| 7 | settle | to-infinitive | king not said here | islands's disputes | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dispute=Location | ||||
| 8 | dispute | islands = island | nom dispute «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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