The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 83
He fled here from Waq of the Caucasus—it is there you must make inquiry; there is no other way of getting at the truth.
Who acts: wealth, Caucasus, you, other way · What happens: flee, be, make, get · To what, where: Waq, inquiry, truth
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, Caucasus, you, other way), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fled | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Waq | case |
| 5 | Waq | Waq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Caucasus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Caucasus | det |
| 8 | Caucasus | Caucasus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Waq | nmod |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 there | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 there | cop |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 make | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fled | parataxis |
| 16 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | conj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 way | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 getting | mark |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 truth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 truth | det |
| 27 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | wealth | Waq of the Caucasus; here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from waq=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Caucasus | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | must | you | inquiry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product | ||||
| 4 | be | present | no other way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | no other way not said here | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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