The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 86
One morning the prince and his dog were out as usual, and in chasing their game they drew near the bank of the river.
Who acts: prince, adventure · What happens: be out, chase, draw · To what, where: game, bank
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, adventure), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 were | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 were | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dog | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dog | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prince | conj |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 were | compound:prt |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 usual | case |
| 11 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 were | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 chasing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chasing | cc |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 chasing | mark |
| 15 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 were | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 game | nmod:poss |
| 17 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chasing | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 game | acl:relcl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 bank | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bank | det |
| 22 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 river | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 river | det |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bank | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be out | past | the prince and prince's dog | morning | as usual | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | chase | gerund | the prince and prince's dog not said here | adventure's game | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | adventure | adventure's game not said here | the bank of the river | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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