The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 90
The prince now went back to the village, and told the old man that he was setting out on a long journey, and begged him not to be anxious, and to keep safe the goods which had been entrusted to him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: go back, tell, set out, beg, not be, keep · To what, where: old man, long journey, prince, safe goods · 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), 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 | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 setting | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 setting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 setting | aux |
| 18 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 told | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 setting | compound:prt |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 journey | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 journey | amod |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 setting | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 begged | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 begged | cc |
| 26 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 begged | obj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 anxious | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 anxious | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 anxious | cop |
| 31 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 begged | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 keep | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 keep | cc |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 keep | mark |
| 35 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | conj |
| 36 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 goods | amod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 goods | det |
| 38 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 35 keep | obj |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 entrusted | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 42 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 keep | ccomp |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 entrusted | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the prince | now | to the village result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | the old man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | set out | past · progressive | prince | a long journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | the prince not said here | prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | not is | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | keep | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | the safe goods | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | entrust | past · perfect · passive | prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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