The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 104
Next she gave him a horse as swift as the breeze of the morning, and she said: “Accept all these things from me; ride till you come to a rising ground, at no great distance from here, where there is a spring.
Who acts: Jamila, you, spring, morning · What happens: give, say, accept, ride, come, rise · To what, where: horse, prince, things, rising ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you, spring, morning), 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 | ADV | _ | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 swift | case |
| 8 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 breeze | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 breeze | det |
| 11 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 morning | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morning | det |
| 14 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breeze | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Accept | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Accept | punct |
| 21 | Accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 things | det:predet |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 things | det |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Accept | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 Accept | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ride | punct |
| 28 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 Accept | parataxis |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 come | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 come | nsubj |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ride | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 34 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 ground | amod |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 distance | punct |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 distance | case |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 distance | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 distance | amod |
| 40 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ride | obl |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 here | case |
| 42 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 distance | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 is | punct |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 is | advmod |
| 45 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 46 is | expl |
| 46 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 distance | parataxis |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 spring | det |
| 48 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 is | nsubj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Jamila | a horse | prince | as swift; as the breeze of the morning; next property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jamila | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | accept in a quote | infinitive | all things | from Jamila | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent thing=Theme from i=Source | ||||
| 4 | ride in a quote | infinitive | at no great distance | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present | you | a rising ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | rise in a quote | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | be in a quote | present | a spring | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | breeze | the morning | nom breeze «phenomenon 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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