The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 41
Slowly and sadly the youth left the palace and told his story to his friends, who were waiting outside the gate, how he had actually held the hen three times in his arms and had lost her.
Who acts: youth, friends · What happens: leave, tell, wait, hold, lose · To what, where: palace, story, friends, gate, castle, arms · 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 (youth, friends), 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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 left | cc |
| 3 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 6 left | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 story | nmod:poss |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waiting | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 waiting | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 waiting | aux |
| 19 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 friends | acl:relcl |
| 20 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 22 gate | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gate | det |
| 22 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waiting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 held | punct |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 held | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 held | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 held | aux |
| 27 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 28 held | advmod |
| 28 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 waiting | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hen | det |
| 30 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 held | obj |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 times | nummod |
| 32 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 held | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 arms | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 arms | nmod:poss |
| 35 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 held | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lost | cc |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 lost | aux |
| 38 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 held | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 lost | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the youth | the palace | sadly, slowly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the youth not said here | castle's story | castle's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to friend=Recipient | |||
| 3 | wait | past · progressive | castle's friends | the gate | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside gate=Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | past · perfect · passive | castle | castle's arms | time | actually property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme hen=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | lose | past · perfect | youth | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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