The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 67
The young man could not remain deaf to such a message, and he took a tender farewell of his wife, and set out on his journey home.
Who acts: young man, prince · What happens: not remain, take, set out, journey · To what, where: tender farewell, journey
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 (young man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 remain | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 remain | advmod |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 remain | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 message | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 message | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 message | det |
| 11 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 deaf | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 remain | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 farewell | det |
| 17 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 farewell | compound |
| 18 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wife | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 farewell | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 journey | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 journey | nmod:poss |
| 28 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remain | could | the young man | deaf property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | prince | a tender farewell of prince's wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | prince not said here | prince's journey | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | journey | prince | nom journey «act 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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