The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 134
The prince declared that the arrow was his, and the gardener’s boy was quite sure it was HIS—and on this occasion he was perfectly right; but, as they could not decide the matter, they went straight to the king.
Who acts: prince, arrow, boy, question, arrows · What happens: declare, be, not decide, go · To what, where: prince, occasion, matter
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, arrow, boy, question), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 declared | nsubj |
| 3 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 sure | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 his | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 his | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nmod:poss |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sure | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gardener | det |
| 12 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 gardener | case |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 sure | advmod |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 declared | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 was | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | HIS | his | CCONJ | _ | 29 right | cc |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 right | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 right | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 occasion | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 occasion | det |
| 25 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 right | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 right | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 right | cop |
| 28 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 29 right | advmod |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sure | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 went | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 went | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 but | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 decide | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 decide | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 decide | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 decide | advmod |
| 37 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 went | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 matter | det |
| 39 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 decide | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 decide | punct |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 declared | conj |
| 43 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 46 king | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 king | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 king | det |
| 46 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other | past | the prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the arrow | prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the gardener's boy | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | past | question | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | boy | this occasion | perfectly, right property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not decide | could | arrows = arrow | the matter | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent matter=Topic | ||||
| 7 | go | past | arrows = arrow | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_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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