The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 4
Now there has come to ask your hand a prince of the east, so handsome that the very sun grows modest before the splendour of his face; he is rich, and he has brought gold and jewels, all for you, if you will marry him.
Who acts: sun, you · What happens: come, ask, grow, be, bring, marry · To what, where: hand, prince, splendour, gold, sun
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 (sun, you), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 come | expl |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | parataxis |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 east | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 east | det |
| 13 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prince | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 handsome | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 handsome | advmod |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ask | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 grows | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 sun | advmod |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grows | nsubj |
| 21 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 handsome | advcl |
| 22 | modest | mod | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 grows | advmod |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 splendour | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 splendour | det |
| 25 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grows | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 face | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 face | nmod:poss |
| 28 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 splendour | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 rich | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 rich | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 rich | cop |
| 32 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 come | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 brought | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 brought | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 brought | nsubj |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 brought | aux |
| 37 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 come | conj |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 brought | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 jewels | cc |
| 40 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 gold | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 all | punct |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 gold | appos |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 you | case |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 all | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 marry | punct |
| 46 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 49 marry | mark |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 marry | nsubj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 marry | aux |
| 49 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 brought | conj |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 marry | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | there | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | your hand | a prince of the east | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the sun | the splendour of sun's face | mod property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before splendour=Location | |||
| 4 | is | present | sun | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | present · perfect | sun | gold and jewels | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 6 | marry a condition, not said to happen | future | you | sun | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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