The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 36
“But I can do it still!” he cried with delight, and he rushed back to the chamber and kissed the sleeping maiden on the forehead.
Who acts: boy · What happens: do, cry, rush back, kiss · To what, where: kiss, sleeping maiden, forehead · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 delight | case |
| 13 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rushed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rushed | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rushed | nsubj |
| 17 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 rushed | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 chamber | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chamber | det |
| 21 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kissed | cc |
| 23 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rushed | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 25 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kissed | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 forehead | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forehead | det |
| 29 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kissed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | boy | kiss | still | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | boy | with delight | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rush back | past | boy | to the chamber result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to chamber=Result | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | boy not said here | the sleeping maiden | the forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Co-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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