The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 37
The prince had escape for ever the second of his three fates!
Who acts: prince · What happens: have, fate · To what, where: escape
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 second | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 second | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 second | det |
| 8 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fates | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fates | nmod:poss |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fates | nummod |
| 12 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 second | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the prince | escape | second | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Patient | |||
| 2 | fate | prince | nom fate «event 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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