The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 58
After a little while the prince said to his wife: “My life is in the hands of three creatures—a crocodile, a serpent, and a dog.”
Who acts: prince, life · What happens: say, be · To what, where: wife, hands · 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, life), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 little | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 hands | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hands | punct |
| 13 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hands | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hands | det |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wife | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 creatures | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 creatures | nummod |
| 21 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hands | nmod |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 crocodile | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 crocodile | det |
| 24 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 creatures | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 serpent | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 serpent | det |
| 27 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crocodile | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dog | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dog | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 dog | det |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | prince's wife and a dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | My life | the hands | of three creatures and a crocodile and a serpent | tree rules |
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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