The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 46
“He is the son of the master of the horse to the great king who dwells across the river, and he fled from his own country to escape from the hatred of his stepmother.”
Who acts: prince, great king · What happens: be, dwell, flee, escape · To what, where: son, river, own country, hatred
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 (prince, great 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 son | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 son | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 master | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 master | det |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 master | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 dwells | nsubj |
| 17 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 king | acl:relcl |
| 18 | across | across | ADP | _ | 20 river | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 river | det |
| 20 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwells | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fled | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fled | nsubj |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 country | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 country | amod |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fled | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 escape | mark |
| 30 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fled | advcl |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 hatred | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hatred | det |
| 33 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 escape | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 stepmother | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 36 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hatred | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | prince | the son | of the master of the horse to the great king | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dwell in a quote | present | the great king | the river | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flee in a quote | past | prince | the son not said here | prince's own country | tree rules | |||
| 4 | escape in a quote | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the hatred of prince's stepmother | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hatred=Initial_Location |
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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