The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 106
When the saint saw that the prince was not to be moved, he said: “Learn and know, O youth! that Waq of Qaf is in the Caucasus and is a dependency of it.
Who acts: saint, prince, Qaf · What happens: see, not move, say, learn, know, be · To what, where: prince, Waq, dependency · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saint, prince, Qaf), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 saint | det |
| 3 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 moved | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 moved | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 moved | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 moved | aux:pass |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Learn | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Learn | punct |
| 18 | Learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 know | cc |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Learn | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 youth | punct |
| 22 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 23 youth | case |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Learn | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 Waq | punct |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 Waq | det |
| 26 | Waq | Waq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Learn | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Caucasus | case |
| 28 | Qaf | Qaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Caucasus | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 Caucasus | cop |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Caucasus | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Caucasus | det |
| 32 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Waq | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dependency | cc |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dependency | cop |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 dependency | det |
| 36 | dependency | dependency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Waq | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 dependency | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the saint | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not move | past · passive | the prince | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | learn in a quote | infinitive | that Waq and a dependency | of youth | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of youth=Topic | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Qaf | of the Caucasus | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | a dependency | of saint | 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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