The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 69
Now whenever the princess commanded the prince’s attendance, Dil-aram, of all the girls, paid him attention and waited on him best.
Who acts: princess, prince · What happens: command, pay, wait, attend · To what, where: attendance, 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 (princess, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 commanded | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | nsubj |
| 5 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attendance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 9 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commanded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aram | punct |
| 11 | Dil | Dil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 aram | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dil | punct |
| 13 | aram | aram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attendance | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 girls | punct |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girls | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 girls | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girls | det |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 commanded | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 paid | punct |
| 20 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 commanded | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 paid | obj |
| 22 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 paid | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 waited | cc |
| 24 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 paid | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waited | obl |
| 27 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 waited | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the princess | the prince's attendance and Dil aram | now | of all girls; whenever property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent attendance=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | pay | past | the princess not said here | prince | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient attention=Asset | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the princess not said here | on prince; well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 4 | attend | the prince | nom attendance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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