The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 112
The servants, each anxious to find her, as the queen was certain to reward the lucky man, searched in the most impossible places.
Who acts: queen · What happens: find, be, reward, search · To what, where: kitten, lucky man, impossible places
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 anxious | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 servants | punct |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 anxious | det |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anxious | xcomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 certain | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 certain | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 certain | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 certain | cop |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 anxious | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 reward | mark |
| 16 | reward | reward | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 certain | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reward | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 searched | punct |
| 21 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 places | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 places | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 impossible | advmod |
| 25 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 places | amod |
| 26 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 searched | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | kitten | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the queen | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reward | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | the lucky man | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | search | participle | the lucky man not said here | the impossible places | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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