The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 117
Our mules have returned home laden with all the gold in the world, and it is now lying in the court.
Who acts: mules, world · What happens: return, lade, lie · To what, where: court
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mules, world), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mules | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | aux |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 gold | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gold | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laden | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lying | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lying | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lying | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lying | aux |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lying | advmod |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 court | det |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present · perfect | Our mules | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | Our mules not said here | with all gold in the world | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present · progressive | world | the court | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location |
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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