The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 93
The affairs of the islands took longer to settle than the king had expected, and some months passed away before he returned to his palace.
Who acts: affairs, months, king · What happens: take, settle, expect, pass away, return · To what, where: king
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 (affairs, months, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 affairs | det |
| 2 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 islands | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 islands | det |
| 5 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 affairs | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 took | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 settle | mark |
| 9 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | advcl |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 expected | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 expected | aux |
| 14 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 settle | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 passed | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 months | det |
| 18 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 passed | nsubj |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 passed | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 returned | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 returned | nsubj |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 passed | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the affairs of the islands | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | the affairs of the islands not said here | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | expect | past · perfect · passive | the king | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass away | past | some months | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | return | past | king | to king's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result |
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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