The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 33

“My father was master of the horse to the king of my country, and after my mother died he married another wife.

Who acts: father, mother, king · What happens: be, die, marry · To what, where: master, wife

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 (father, mother, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 master	cop
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 country	nmod:poss
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 king	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 married	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 married	cc
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	20 died	mark
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 married	advcl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 married	nsubj
22	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 master	conj
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 wife	det
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 married	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	My father	master	of the horse to the king of my country	tree rules
2	die in a quote	past	my mother			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	marry in a quote	past	king	another wife		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient

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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