The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 93

[8] The prince thanked heaven, laid the hands of reverence on his breast and salaamed.

Who acts: prince · What happens: thank, lay, salaam · To what, where: 8, hands, breast

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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 8	punct
2	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 thanked	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 8	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanked	nsubj
6	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct
9	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thanked	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hands	det
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laid	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 reverence	case
13	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 breast	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 breast	nmod:poss
16	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 salaamed	cc
18	salaamed	salaam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thanked	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the prince	8		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme
2	lay	past	the prince not said here	the hands of reverence	prince's breast	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on breast=Destination
3	salaam	past	the prince not said here			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V»: agent=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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