The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 85
In a few moments more she had landed, and desired to be shown the way to the cottage which her bridegroom had so often described to her; and whither he had been led back by the king’s order at the first sign of the ship.
Who acts: whisper, bridegroom, cottage, order, king · What happens: land, desire, show, have, describe, lead back · To what, where: way, cottage, whisper, bridegroom, first sign, ship
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 (whisper, bridegroom, cottage, order), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moments | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moments | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moments | amod |
| 4 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 landed | obl |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 landed | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 landed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 landed | aux |
| 8 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 desired | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 desired | cc |
| 11 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 landed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 shown | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shown | aux:pass |
| 14 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 desired | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shown | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cottage | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cottage | det |
| 19 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 way | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 had | obj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 often | advmod |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 26 described | advmod |
| 26 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 had | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 described | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 led | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 led | cc |
| 31 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 led | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 led | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 led | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 led | aux:pass |
| 35 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 landed | conj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 35 led | advmod |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 order | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 order | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 king | case |
| 41 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 led | obl |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 sign | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sign | det |
| 44 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 45 sign | amod |
| 45 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 led | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 ship | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 ship | det |
| 48 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sign | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past · perfect | whisper | moment | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | desire | participle | whisper not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | whisper not said here | the way | the cottage | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: way=Topic to cottage=Recipient | |||
| 4 | have | past | whisper's bridegroom | the cottage | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | describe | participle | the cottage not said here | whisper | often property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to she=be' | |||
| 6 | lead back | past · perfect · passive | the king's order | bridegroom | the first sign of the ship | whither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at sign=Destination | ||
| 7 | order | the king | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | sign | the ship | nom sign «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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