The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 11
The news of the death of Prince Tahmasp plunged his father into despair and stupefaction.
Who acts: news, Tahmasp · What happens: plunge, die · To what, where: father, despair
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 (news, Tahmasp), 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 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 death | det |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Tahmasp | case |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tahmasp | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Tahmasp | Tahmasp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod |
| 9 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 despair | case |
| 13 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plunged | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stupefaction | cc |
| 15 | stupefaction | stupefaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 despair | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | past | the news of the death of Tahmasp Prince | prince's father | despair and stupefaction | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location father=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | Tahmasp Prince | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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