The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 12
After some hours they reached the castle of the Sister of the Sun, who kept the golden hens among her treasures.
Who acts: bushes, castle, sun · What happens: reach, keep, treasure · To what, where: castle, golden hens, treasures
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bushes, castle, sun), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 hours | det |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sister | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sister | det |
| 10 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sister | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kept | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 kept | nsubj |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 castle | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hens | det |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hens | amod |
| 19 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kept | obj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 treasures | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 22 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kept | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | bushes = bush | the castle of the Sister of the Sun | hour | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past | the castle of the Sister of the Sun | the golden hens | sun's treasures | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hen=Theme among treasure=Location | |||
| 3 | treasure | sun | nom treasure «possession 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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