The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 82
“O wealth of my life and source of my joy!” responded Dil-aram, “I do not know what the rose did to the cypress; but so much I know that the person who told Mihr-afruz about it is a negro whom she hides under her throne.
Who acts: wealth, rose, person, my · What happens: respond, not know, do, know, tell, be · To what, where: Dil, Mihr afruz, negro, throne · 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 (wealth, rose, person, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 responded | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 wealth | discourse |
| 3 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 responded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wealth | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 source | cc |
| 8 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 joy | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 joy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 source | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 source | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 source | punct |
| 14 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Dil | Dil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 responded | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dil | punct |
| 17 | aram | aram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Dil | list |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 responded | conj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 did | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rose | det |
| 26 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 cypress | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cypress | det |
| 30 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 did | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 responded | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 know | cc |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 much | advmod |
| 34 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 know | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 know | nsubj |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 responded | conj |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 negro | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 person | det |
| 39 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 negro | nsubj |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 told | nsubj |
| 41 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 person | acl:relcl |
| 42 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 afruz | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Mihr | punct |
| 44 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 told | iobj |
| 45 | about | about | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 afruz | nmod |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 negro | cop |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 negro | det |
| 49 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 know | ccomp |
| 50 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 hides | obj |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 hides | nsubj |
| 52 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 negro | acl:relcl |
| 53 | under | under | ADP | _ | 55 throne | case |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 throne | nmod:poss |
| 55 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 hides | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | past | wealth of my life and source of my joy | Dil | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dil=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | wealth of my life and source of my joy = wealth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | the rose | to the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | wealth of my life and source of my joy = wealth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the person | Mihr afruz about person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent afruz=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | the person | a negro | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hide in a quote | present | rose | a negro | rose's throne | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Patient under throne=Location | |||
| 8 | joy in a quote | my | nom joy «feeling 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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