The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 26
He exchanged his royal dress for another, and next morning, just as the sun looked forth from its eastern oratory, he went again into the city.
Who acts: prince, sun · What happens: exchange, look, go · To what, where: royal dress, city
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, sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 exchanged | nsubj |
| 2 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dress | nmod:poss |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dress | amod |
| 5 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exchanged | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 another | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 exchanged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 morning | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 morning | cc |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morning | amod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 exchanged | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 exchanged | parataxis |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 oratory | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 oratory | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 oratory | amod |
| 22 | oratory | oratory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 exchanged | parataxis |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 city | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 city | det |
| 29 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 exchanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exchange | past | prince | prince's royal dress | morning | for another | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme for another=Co-Theme | ||
| 2 | look | past | the sun | from dress's eastern oratory; forth property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from oratory=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | prince | the city | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into city=Initial_Location |
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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