The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 119

The prince read and bared his head and lifted his hands in supplication to Him who has no needs, and prayed, “O Friend of the traveller!

Who acts: prince · What happens: read, bare, lift, have, pray · To what, where: head, hands, prince, supplication, needs, Friend

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 (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 read	nsubj
3	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bared	cc
5	bared	bare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bared	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lifted	cc
9	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lifted	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 supplication	case
13	supplication	supplication	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Him	case
15	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lifted	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lifted	parataxis
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 needs	det
19	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 has	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prayed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 prayed	cc
22	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 read	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Friend	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Friend	punct
25	O	o	INTJ	_	26 Friend	discourse
26	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 prayed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 traveller	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 traveller	det
29	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Friend	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	read	past	the prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bare	past	the prince not said here	prince's head			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	lift	past	the prince not said here	prince's hands	prince	supplication	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in supplication=Destination to he=Initial_Location
4	have	present		no needs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
5	pray	past	the prince not said here	Friend of the traveller			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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