The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 24
At the period when the young prince reached the kingdom he had just completed a wonderful house for his only child, a daughter.
Who acts: young prince, kingdom · What happens: reach, complete · To what, where: kingdom, period, prince
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 (young prince, kingdom), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 period | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 period | det |
| 3 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obl |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 completed | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 completed | advmod |
| 14 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 kingdom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 16 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 completed | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 child | amod |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daughter | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 daughter | det |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the young prince | the kingdom | the period | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme at period=Asset | |||
| 2 | complete | past · perfect · passive | the kingdom not said here | prince | 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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