The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 29
They had already been spending several days in this manner when the young prince arrived, and as he was pleasant to look upon, and civil to talk to, they welcomed him to the house, which had been given to them, and saw that his bath was properly perfumed after his long journey.
Who acts: others, young prince, prince · What happens: spend, arrive, be, look, talk, welcome · To what, where: manner, prince, house, others, bath · 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 (others, young prince, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spending | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spending | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 spending | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 spending | aux |
| 5 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spending | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 manner | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 manner | det |
| 10 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spending | obl |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 arrived | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prince | amod |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spending | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleasant | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pleasant | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 pleasant | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pleasant | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleasant | cop |
| 21 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 arrived | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 look | mark |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleasant | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 look | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 civil | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 civil | cc |
| 27 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pleasant | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 talk | mark |
| 29 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 civil | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 talk | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 welcomed | punct |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 welcomed | nsubj |
| 33 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleasant | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 welcomed | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 welcomed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 given | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 given | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 given | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 given | aux:pass |
| 42 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 house | acl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 given | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 saw | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 saw | cc |
| 47 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 welcomed | conj |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 perfumed | mark |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 bath | nmod:poss |
| 50 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 perfumed | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 perfumed | aux:pass |
| 52 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 53 perfumed | advmod |
| 53 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 saw | ccomp |
| 54 | after | after | ADP | _ | 57 journey | case |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 journey | nmod:poss |
| 56 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 journey | amod |
| 57 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 perfumed | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · perfect · progressive | others = other | this manner | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | the young prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | prince not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | talk | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | welcome | past | others = other | prince | to the house | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 8 | give | past · perfect · passive | the house | others = other | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to they=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | see | past | others = other not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 10 | perfume | past · passive | prince's bath | after prince's long journey | properly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||
| 11 | journey | prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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