The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 49
And he began to smash the drinking vessels in his fury; indeed, he quite frightened the young man, who ran hastily home to his friends, and told the youth what the king had said.
Who acts: prince, young man, king · What happens: begin, smash, frighten, run, tell, say · To what, where: drinking vessels, fury, young man, youth · 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 (prince, young man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 smash | mark |
| 5 | smash | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vessels | det |
| 7 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vessels | compound |
| 8 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smash | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 fury | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fury | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vessels | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 frightened | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 frightened | nsubj |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 frightened | advmod |
| 17 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frightened | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ran | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 25 home | advmod |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 friends | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friends | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 home | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 told | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 told | cc |
| 31 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 youth | det |
| 33 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 told | obj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 said | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 king | det |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 said | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 said | aux |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 told | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | prince | indeed property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | smash | to-infinitive | prince not said here | the drinking vessels | prince's fury | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme in fury=Destination | |||
| 3 | frighten | past | prince | the young man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the young man | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | prince not said here | the youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 7 | infuriate | prince | nom fury «feeling 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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