The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 99
The old man of good counsel looked at the young prince and said: “Turn back from this dangerous undertaking.
Who acts: old man · What happens: look, say, turn back · To what, where: dangerous undertaking · 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 (old 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 counsel | case |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 counsel | amod |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Turn | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Turn | punct |
| 16 | Turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 Turn | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 undertaking | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 undertaking | det |
| 20 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 undertaking | amod |
| 21 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Turn | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the old man of good counsel | at the young prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man of good counsel not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn back in a quote | infinitive | this dangerous undertaking | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from undertaking=Source |
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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