The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 54
So he ordered the princess to be brought before him, and the young man also, and when they entered the throne room he was so pleased with the noble air of the victor that his wrath quite melted away, and he ran to him and embraced him.
Who acts: king, people · What happens: order, bring, enter, be, melt away, run · To what, where: young man, princess, throne room, wrath, anger, king
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 (king, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 brought | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 princess | acl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 man | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obl |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 man | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entered | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 entered | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 room | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 room | compound |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pleased | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pleased | cop |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 pleased | advmod |
| 28 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 entered | ccomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 air | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 air | det |
| 31 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 air | amod |
| 32 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleased | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 victor | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 victor | det |
| 35 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 air | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 melted | mark |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 40 melted | advmod |
| 40 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 pleased | advcl |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 melted | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 ran | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ran | cc |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 ran | nsubj |
| 45 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 ran | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 embraced | cc |
| 49 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 ran | conj |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 embraced | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | king | the young man | the princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | before king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | people | the throne room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | king | with the noble air of the victor; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | melt away | participle · passive | king's wrath | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 6 | run | past | king | anger | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 7 | embrace | past | king not said here | king | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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