The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 104
“But the worst misfortune of all,” she added, “was a battle which my father lost because you had vanished with his magic sword; and out of his whole army hardly one man was left.”
Who acts: princess, battle, you · What happens: add, be, father, lose, vanish, leave · To what, where: worst misfortune, battle, father, one man, whole army · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, battle, you), 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 | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 misfortune | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 misfortune | det |
| 4 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 misfortune | amod |
| 5 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 misfortune | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 misfortune | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 misfortune | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 battle | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 battle | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 battle | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 battle | det |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 father | nsubj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 battle | appos |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 father | acl |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 vanished | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 vanished | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 vanished | aux |
| 24 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 lost | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 sword | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sword | amod |
| 28 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vanished | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 left | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 left | cc |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 army | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 army | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 army | nmod:poss |
| 34 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 army | amod |
| 35 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | obl |
| 36 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 37 one | advmod |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 man | nummod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 left | aux:pass |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 added | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | princess | the worst misfortune of all | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | a battle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | father in a quote | a battle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | participle | my father not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | vanish in a quote | past · perfect | you | with castle's magic sword | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | past · passive | one man | castle's whole army | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme out army=Location |
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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