The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 46
He joined their talk and soon learned from them that the king had only one daughter who had such a hatred to men that she would never suffer one to enter her presence.
Who acts: boy, king, one daughter, body, maids · What happens: join, learn, have, not suffer, enter, talk · To what, where: talk, one daughter, hatred, one, presence
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 (boy, king, one daughter, body), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 joined | nsubj |
| 2 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 talk | nmod:poss |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joined | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 learned | cc |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 learned | advmod |
| 7 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 joined | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 learned | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 had | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 learned | advcl |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 daughter | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 daughter | nummod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 19 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 hatred | det:predet |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hatred | det |
| 21 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 suffer | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 suffer | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 suffer | aux |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 suffer | advmod |
| 28 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | advcl |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 suffer | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 enter | mark |
| 31 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 suffer | advcl |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 presence | nmod:poss |
| 33 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enter | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | boy | maids's talk | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | boy not said here | from maids = maid; soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the king | one daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | past | one daughter | such hatred | to men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatred=Patient | |||
| 5 | not suffer | would | body | one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | enter | to-infinitive | body not said here | body's presence | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination | ||||
| 7 | talk | maids = maid | nom talk «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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