The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 18
This sounded much more difficult than what he had done before, and he turned in despair to the Sister of the Sun.
Who acts: This, king · What happens: sound, do, turn · To what, where: despair
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 (This, king), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sounded | nsubj |
| 2 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 difficult | advmod |
| 5 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sounded | xcomp |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 difficult | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 done | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 turned | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sounded | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 despair | case |
| 17 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Sister | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sister | det |
| 20 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Sun. | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sun. | det |
| 23 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sister | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | This | difficult property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | king | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | king | despair | to the Sister of the Sun. | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in despair=Trajectory |
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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