The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 14
Next morning it was very hot, and the princess declared that she must go and play in the forest, where it was always cool, under the big shady trees.
Who acts: playfellow, princess · What happens: be, declare, go, play · To what, where: forest, big shady trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (playfellow, princess), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 declared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 declared | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 declared | nsubj |
| 11 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 declared | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 play | cc |
| 17 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 play | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cool | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 cool | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cool | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cool | cop |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 cool | advmod |
| 26 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forest | acl:relcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 trees | punct |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 trees | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 trees | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 trees | amod |
| 31 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 trees | amod |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cool | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | playfellow | morning | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | the princess | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | must | princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | infinitive | princess not said here | the forest | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | playfellow | the big shady trees | always, cool property | tree rules |
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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