The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 73
So the boy set forth on his journey home, with his friends for company; his heart full of gladness when he thought of the promise of the princess.
Who acts: boy · What happens: set, think, journey, promise · To what, where: journey, princess
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 journey | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 company | case |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 friends | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 heart | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | parataxis |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 heart | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gladness | case |
| 21 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 thought | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thought | nsubj |
| 24 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 promise | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 promise | det |
| 27 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thought | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 princess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 princess | det |
| 30 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 promise | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the boy | boy's journey | with boy's friends for company; forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | boy | of the promise of the princess | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | journey | boy | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | promise | the princess | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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