The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 60
Now in the princess’s household there was a girl called Dil-aram[7]; she it was who had first seen the image of the prince.
Who acts: household · What happens: be, call, see, image · To what, where: girl, princess, 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 (household), 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 | 6 household | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 household | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 household | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 princess | case |
| 6 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 girl | acl |
| 12 | Dil | Dil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 aram | punct |
| 14 | aram | aram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Dil | appos |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 7 | punct |
| 16 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 aram | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 7 | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 seen | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 seen | advmod |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 was | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 image | det |
| 27 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 prince | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 image | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the princess's household | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a girl not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | princess | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | image | the prince | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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