The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 1
The prince approached and tied up his horse near the negro’s head.
Who acts: prince · What happens: approach, tie up · To what, where: horse, head
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. 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 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tied | cc |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 approached | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 tied | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 negro | det |
| 11 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 negro | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | participle | the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tie up | participle | the prince not said here | prince's horse | the negro's head | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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