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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 19

Like his brothers, he made the long journey to the city of Quimus the son of Timus; like them he saw the citadel, but he saw there the heads of Tahmasp and Qamas.

Who acts: prince · What happens: make, see · To what, where: long journey, citadel, heads

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

casenmod:possoblpunctnsubjdetamodobjcasedetnmodcasenmoddetapposcasenmodpunctcaseoblnsubjconjdetobjpunctccnsubjconjadvmoddetobjcasenmodccconjpunctrootLikeADPhisPRONbrothersNOUN,PUNCThePRONmadeVERBtheDETlongADJjourneyNOUNtoADPtheDETcityNOUNofADPQuimusPROPNtheDETsonNOUNofADPTimusPROPN;PUNCTlikeADPthemPRONhePRONsawVERBtheDETcitadelNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJhePRONsawVERBthereADVtheDETheadsNOUNofADPTahmaspPROPNandCCONJQamasPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1LikelikeADP_3 brotherscase
2hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 brothersnmod:poss
3brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur6 madeobl
4,,PUNCT_3 brotherspunct
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 madensubj
6mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 journeydet
8longlongADJDegree=Pos9 journeyamod
9journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing6 madeobj
10totoADP_12 citycase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 citydet
12citycityNOUNNumber=Sing9 journeynmod
13ofofADP_14 Quimuscase
14QuimusQuimusPROPNNumber=Sing12 citynmod
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 sondet
16sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing14 Quimusappos
17ofofADP_18 Timuscase
18TimusTimusPROPNNumber=Sing16 sonnmod
19;;PUNCT_23 sawpunct
20likelikeADP_21 themcase
21themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs23 sawobl
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 sawnsubj
23sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 madeconj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 citadeldet
25citadelcitadelNOUNNumber=Sing23 sawobj
26,,PUNCT_29 sawpunct
27butbutCCONJ_29 sawcc
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 sawnsubj
29sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 madeconj
30therethereADVPronType=Dem29 sawadvmod
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 headsdet
32headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur29 sawobj
33ofofADP_34 Tahmaspcase
34TahmaspTahmaspPROPNNumber=Sing32 headsnmod
35andandCCONJ_36 Qamascc
36QamasQamasPROPNNumber=Sing34 Tahmaspconj
37..PUNCT_6 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastprincethe long journeylike prince's brothers; to the city of Quimusvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product
2seepastprincethe citadellike brothers = brothervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer citadel=Stimulus
3seepastprincethe heads of Tahmasp and Qamastherevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus

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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