The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 34
The sultan granted her an audience at once, and, in a trembling voice, she made her request.
Who acts: sultan, woman · What happens: grant, make, request · To what, where: audience, woman, request, trembling voice
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 (sultan, woman), 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 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 granted | obj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 audience | det |
| 6 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 granted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 request | nmod:poss |
| 20 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | the sultan | a audience | woman | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal audience=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | woman | woman's request | a trembling voice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Product | |||
| 3 | request | woman | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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