The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 32
But the young prince had reasons for keeping his own secret, and he answered:
Who acts: young prince, reasons, prince · What happens: have, keep, answer · To what, where: reasons, own secret
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, reasons, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 prince | amod |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 answered | advcl |
| 6 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 keeping | mark |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 reasons | acl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 secret | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 secret | amod |
| 11 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 answered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the young prince | reasons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | reasons not said here | prince's own secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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