The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 1
The prince thanked him for his kindness, and did as he was bid, and the two then bade each other farewell.
Who acts: prince · What happens: thank, do, bid · To what, where: him, prince
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 kindness | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 bid | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bid | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bid | aux:pass |
| 14 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 did | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bade | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bade | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bade | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 bade | nummod |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 bade | advmod |
| 20 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bid | obl |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 farewell | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 farewell | amod |
| 23 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bid | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the prince | him = he | for prince's kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | do | past | the prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | prince | the two bade obl; each other farewell obl:unmarked | 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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