The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 57
However, the king had taken such a fancy to the youth that he said no more, and the marriage took place the following day, and great herds of cattle and a large estate were given to the young couple.
Who acts: king, marriage · What happens: take, say, follow, give · To what, where: fancy, youth, more, place, great herds, young couple · 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 (king, marriage), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 fancy | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fancy | det |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 said | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 youth | acl |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 marriage | det |
| 21 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | parataxis |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 given | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 given | cc |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 herds | amod |
| 30 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 given | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 cattle | case |
| 32 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 herds | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 estate | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 estate | det |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 estate | amod |
| 36 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cattle | conj |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 given | aux:pass |
| 38 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 took | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 couple | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 couple | det |
| 41 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 couple | amod |
| 42 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 given | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | the king | such fancy | the youth | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to youth=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the marriage | place | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give | past · passive | great herds of cattle and a large estate | the young couple | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to couple=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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