The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 42
The poor old dog was drowned, but the prince was pulled to shore.
What happens: drown, pull · To what, where: poor old dog, prince, shore
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: 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 | 4 dog | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drowned | aux:pass |
| 6 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | aux:pass |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 drowned | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shore | case |
| 14 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past · passive | the poor old dog | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | pull | past · passive | the prince | shore | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to shore=Destination |
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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