The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 29
One day he thought he would go to her own palace and see if he could learn anything there, so he went out to her garden-house.
Who acts: prince · What happens: think, go, see, learn, go out · To what, where: own palace, anything · 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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 palace | amod |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 learn | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 learn | aux |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 learn | obj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 anything | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 house | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 garden | punct |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | prince | day | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | would | prince | land's own palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | learn a condition, not said to happen | could | prince | anything | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go out | past | prince | to land's garden house; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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