The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 34
While he prayed he bethought himself that he could get into the garden with a stream of inflowing water.
Who acts: prince · What happens: pray, bethink, get, inflow · To what, where: prince, garden
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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 prayed | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prayed | nsubj |
| 3 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bethought | nsubj |
| 5 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prayed | ccomp |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 bethought | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bethought | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | inflowing | inflow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stream | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | prince | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bethink | past | prince | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | could | prince | the garden | with a stream of inflowing water | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | |||
| 4 | inflow | gerund | tree rules |
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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