The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 56
But the prince still had his reasons for being silent, and only told the same story.
Who acts: prince · What happens: have, be, tell · To what, where: reasons, same story · 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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 reasons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 silent | case |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 silent | cop |
| 10 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reasons | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 told | advmod |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 story | amod |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the prince | king's reasons | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | silent property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | the same story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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