The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 102
Then she took the bow and quiver of arrows, the sword, and the dagger out of a box, and the prince let fall a Bismillah, and girt them all on.
Who acts: Jamila, prince, arrows · What happens: take, let, fall, girt, quiver · To what, where: bow, Bismillah
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 (Jamila, prince, arrows), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bow | det |
| 5 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 quiver | cc |
| 7 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bow | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 arrows | case |
| 9 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quiver | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sword | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bow | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dagger | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dagger | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dagger | det |
| 16 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 box | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 box | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 box | det |
| 20 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dagger | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 let | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 let | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 let | nsubj |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 let | xcomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Bismillah | det |
| 28 | Bismillah | Bismillah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fall | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 girt | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 girt | cc |
| 31 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 girt | obj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | on | on | ADV | _ | 31 girt | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Jamila | the bow and quiver of arrows and the sword | then | the dagger out a box obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||
| 2 | let | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | the prince not said here | a Bismillah | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bismillah=Result | ||||
| 4 | girt | infinitive | Jamila not said here | bow | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | quiver | arrows | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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