The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 130
One morning, when the prince had done his lessons, he ran out to call his friend, and they both hurried off to the lawn which was their usual playground.
Who acts: prince, lessons, lawn · What happens: do, run out, call, hurry off, be · To what, where: lessons, friend, lawn, usual playground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince, lessons, lawn), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 done | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 morning | acl:relcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lessons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 done | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 ran | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 call | mark |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ran | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hurried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hurried | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hurried | nsubj |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 23 hurried | advmod |
| 23 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 hurried | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 lawn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lawn | det |
| 27 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hurried | obl |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 playground | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 playground | cop |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 playground | nmod:poss |
| 31 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 playground | amod |
| 32 | playground | playground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lawn | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | the prince | prince's lessons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run out | past | prince | morning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | prince not said here | prince's friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hurry off | past | lessons = lesson | the lawn | both property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lawn=Destination | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the lawn | lessons's usual playground | tree rules |
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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