The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 114

Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: “O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads.

Who acts: column · What happens: say, be, skill, read, follow, know · To what, where: Everything, prince, tongues, Cufic inscription, column, you · 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 (column), 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	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 said	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 be	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 be	aux
12	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 skilled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 skilled	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prince	det
16	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skilled	nsubj:pass
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 skilled	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 skilled	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 skilled	aux:pass
20	skilled	skill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 tongues	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 tongues	det
23	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 skilled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 read	punct
25	read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 inscription	det
27	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 inscription	case
28	Cufic	cufic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 inscription	amod
29	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 read	obj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 travellers	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 travellers	punct
32	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	33 travellers	case
33	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 read	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 known	aux:pass
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 known	nsubj:pass
37	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 known	obl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 set	mark
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 column	det
42	column	column	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 set	nsubj:pass
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 set	aux
44	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	45 set	aux:pass
45	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 known	parataxis
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 set	compound:prt
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 tablet	case
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 tablet	nmod:poss
49	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 set	obl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 give	mark
51	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 set	advcl
52	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 directions	amod
53	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 give	obj
54	about	about	ADP	_	56 roads	case
55	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	56 roads	det
56	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 directions	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past · perfect · passive		Everything				tree rules
2	be	would	column					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	skill	past · passive		the prince		all tongues		tree rules
4	read	infinitive		the Cufic inscription			of travellers	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic
5	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know in a quote	infinitive · passive		column	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
7	set up in a quote	present · perfect · passive		this column			with column's tablet	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tablet=Instrument
8	give in a quote	to-infinitive		true directions			about this roads	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme

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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