The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 54
She lost a hundred hearts to him, and signed to her nurse to bring him to her presence.
Who acts: princess · What happens: lose, sign, bring · To what, where: hundred hearts, prince, nurse, presence
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 (princess), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hearts | nummod |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lost | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 signed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 signed | cc |
| 10 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 nurse | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 signed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 signed | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 presence | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 presence | nmod:poss |
| 19 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | princess | hundred hearts | prince | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | sign | past | princess not said here | princess's nurse | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to nurse=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | princess not said here | prince | princess's presence | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to presence=Destination |
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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