The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 120
But when the merry-making was done, and the young couple were alone, the head suddenly disappeared, or, rather, a body was added to it, and one of the handsomest young men that ever was seen stood before the princess.
Who acts: merry making, young couple, handsomest young men · What happens: be, disappear, add, see, stand · To what, where: body, making, handsomest young men
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry making, young couple, handsomest young men), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 done | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 done | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 making | det |
| 4 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 making | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 merry | punct |
| 6 | making | making | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | cop |
| 8 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disappeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 disappeared | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 couple | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 couple | amod |
| 13 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 couple | acl |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 were | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 head | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 couple | conj |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 disappeared | advmod |
| 20 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 added | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 added | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 or | punct |
| 24 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 29 added | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rather | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 body | det |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 added | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 added | aux:pass |
| 29 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 disappeared | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 added | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 one | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 one | cc |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 done | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 men | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 men | det |
| 37 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 men | amod |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 men | amod |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 seen | nsubj |
| 41 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 43 seen | advmod |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 seen | aux:pass |
| 43 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 men | acl:relcl |
| 44 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 seen | xcomp |
| 45 | before | before | ADP | _ | 47 princess | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 princess | det |
| 47 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stood | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merry making | one of the handsomest young men obl; done property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the young couple and the head not said here | alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disappear | past | the young couple and the head | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past · passive | a body | making | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | see | past · passive | the handsomest young men | ever | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stand | participle | the handsomest young men not said here | before the princess | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before princess=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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