The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 45
“The youth who succeeded in climbing to the princess’s window is not a prince at all,” answered the young man.
Who acts: youth, young man · What happens: succeed, not be, answer · To what, where: climbing, prince, all · 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 (youth, young man), 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 | _ | 16 prince | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prince | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 succeeded | nsubj |
| 5 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 youth | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 climbing | case |
| 7 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 succeeded | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 succeeded | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 prince | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 prince | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 prince | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prince | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 prince | punct |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed in a quote | past | the youth | climbing | to the princess's window | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in climbing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | the youth | a prince | all | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | 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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