The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 100
So the prince told her the whole story, and of the impossible task given him by the crocodile.
Who acts: prince · What happens: tell, give · To what, where: whole story, sound, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 given | cc |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 task | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 task | det |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 task | amod |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 crocodile | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 crocodile | det |
| 19 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince | the whole story | sound | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | participle | the prince not said here | prince | of the impossible task; by the crocodile | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/25/100/