The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 16
He did not keep them long, but they saw by his face that nothing good awaited them.
Who acts: king, commands · What happens: not keep, see, await · To what, where: commands, face
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 (king, commands), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 keep | advmod |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 awaited | nsubj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 awaited | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nothing | amod |
| 17 | awaited | await | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 face | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 awaited | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | past · do-support | king | commands = command | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | commands = command | by king's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | await | participle · passive | king's face | tree rules |
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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