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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 33

He went round outside the garden wall hoping to find a gap, and he made supplication in the Court of Supplications and prayed, “O Holder of the hand of the helpless! show me my way.”

Who acts: prince · What happens: go round, hope, find, make, pray, show · To what, where: garden wall, gap, supplication, Court, way, prince · 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

nsubjadvmodcasedetcompoundobladvclmarkxcompdetobjpunctccnsubjconjobjcasedetoblcasenmodccconjpunctpunctcaseoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctccompiobjnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootHePRONwentVERBroundADVoutsideADPtheDETgardenNOUNwallNOUNhopingVERBtoPARTfindVERBaDETgapNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONmadeVERBsupplicationNOUNinADPtheDETCourtNOUNofADPSupplicationsNOUNandCCONJprayedVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTOADPHolderPROPNofADPtheDEThandNOUNofADPtheDEThelplessNOUN!PUNCTshowVERBmePRONmyPRONwayNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3roundroundADV_2 wentadvmod
4outsideoutsideADP_7 wallcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 walldet
6gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing7 wallcompound
7wallwallNOUNNumber=Sing2 wentobl
8hopinghopeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 wentadvcl
9totoPART_10 findmark
10findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf8 hopingxcomp
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 gapdet
12gapgapNOUNNumber=Sing10 findobj
13,,PUNCT_16 madepunct
14andandCCONJ_16 madecc
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 madensubj
16mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
17supplicationsupplicationNOUNNumber=Sing16 madeobj
18ininADP_20 Courtcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Courtdet
20CourtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing16 madeobl
21ofofADP_22 Supplicationscase
22SupplicationssupplicationNOUNNumber=Plur20 Courtnmod
23andandCCONJ_24 prayedcc
24prayedprayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
25,,PUNCT_36 showpunct
26“"PUNCT_36 showpunct
27OofADPAbbr=Yes28 Holdercase
28HolderHolderPROPNNumber=Sing36 showobl
29ofofADP_31 handcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 handdet
31handhandNOUNNumber=Sing28 Holdernmod
32ofofADP_34 helplesscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 helplessdet
34helplesshelplessNOUNNumber=Sing31 handnmod
35!!PUNCT_28 Holderpunct
36showshowVERBVerbForm=Inf24 prayedccomp
37meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs36 showiobj
38mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs39 waynmod:poss
39waywayNOUNNumber=Sing36 showobj
40..PUNCT_36 showpunct
41”"PUNCT_36 showpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go roundpastprincethe garden wallround propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme outside wall=Location
2hopegerundprince not said herevn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3find not said to happento-infinitiveprince not said herea gapvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gap=Topic
4makepastprincesupplicationthe Court of Supplicationsvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supplication=Product
5praypastprince not said herevn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6show in a quoteinfinitiveprince not said heremy wayprinceof Holder of the hand of the helplessvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic

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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