The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 10
He went with her and into a palace which was like a house in Paradise, and saw seated on the royal carpets of the throne a girl whose brilliance shamed the shining sun. He salaamed; she rose, took him by the hand and placed him near her.
Who acts: nurse, girl · What happens: go, be, see, seat, shame, shine · To what, where: palace, royal carpets, shining sun., nurse
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 (nurse, girl), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 house | cc |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 house | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 house | cop |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Paradise | case |
| 15 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 19 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 saw | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 carpets | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 carpets | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 carpets | amod |
| 23 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seated | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 throne | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 throne | det |
| 26 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carpets | nmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 girl | det |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shamed | nsubj |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 brilliance | nmod:poss |
| 30 | brilliance | brilliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shamed | nsubj |
| 31 | shamed | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 throne | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun. | det |
| 33 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 sun. | amod |
| 34 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shamed | obj |
| 35 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 salaamed | nsubj |
| 36 | salaamed | salaam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sun. | acl:relcl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 rose | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 rose | nsubj |
| 39 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 rose | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 took | obj |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 hand | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hand | det |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 placed | cc |
| 47 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 rose | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 placed | obj |
| 49 | near | near | ADP | _ | 50 her | case |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 placed | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | nurse | with girl | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a palace | like a house; in Paradise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | nurse not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | seat | participle | nurse not said here | the royal carpets of the throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 5 | shame | past | a girl | the shining sun. | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sun.=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | salaam | past | nurse | the shining sun. not said here | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun.=Topic | ||||
| 8 | rise | past | girl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | take | past | girl not said here | nurse | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 10 | place | past | girl not said here | nurse | near girl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme near she=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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