The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 9
The prince had an eloquent tongue, which could split a hair, and without hesitation he replied to her with a verse: “Only the Omnipotent has knowledge of secrets; if any man says, ‘I know’ do not believe him.”
Who acts: prince, eloquent tongue, Omnipotent, man · What happens: have, split, reply, say, know, not believe · To what, where: eloquent tongue, hair, rose, knowledge, man · 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 (prince, eloquent tongue, Omnipotent, man), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tongue | det |
| 5 | eloquent | eloquent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tongue | amod |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 split | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 split | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 split | aux |
| 10 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hair | det |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 split | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 replied | cc |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 hesitation | case |
| 16 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 verse | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 verse | det |
| 23 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 has | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 has | punct |
| 26 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 28 Omnipotent | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Omnipotent | det |
| 28 | Omnipotent | omnipotent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 has | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 verse | acl:relcl |
| 30 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 has | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 secrets | case |
| 32 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 knowledge | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 says | punct |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 says | mark |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 man | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 says | nsubj |
| 37 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 believe | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 know | punct |
| 39 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 know | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 know | nsubj |
| 41 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 says | ccomp |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 know | punct |
| 43 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 believe | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 believe | advmod |
| 45 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 believe | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 believe | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the prince | a eloquent tongue | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | split | could | a eloquent tongue | a hair | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | prince | rose | without hesitation; with a verse | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent to she=Theme with verse=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the Omnipotent | knowledge of secrets | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | any man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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