The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 23
They were glad when the prince came to their house, and they dealt with him as with a son.
Who acts: drums, prince · What happens: be, come, deal · To what, where: house
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 (drums, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | cop |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dealt | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dealt | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dealt | nsubj |
| 14 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 glad | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dealt | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 dealt | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 son | det |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dealt | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | drums = drum | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the prince | drums's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | deal | past | drums = drum | with prince; with a son | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=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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