The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 8
The three days passed; then the riddle was asked: “What did the rose do to the cypress?”
Who acts: rose · What happens: pass, ask, do · To what, where: three days, riddle · 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 (rose), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 asked | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 riddle | det |
| 8 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | aux:pass |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 do | obj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rose | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 cypress | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cypress | det |
| 20 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle · passive | the three days | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | the riddle | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past · do-support | the rose | to the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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