The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 108
On the long road beyond there dwells a lion-king, alla if other beasts did not fear him they would ravage the whole country and let no one pass.
Who acts: other beasts, beasts · What happens: dwell, not fear, ravage, let · To what, where: lion king, long road, prince, whole country, one pass
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 (other beasts, beasts), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 road | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 road | amod |
| 4 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwells | obl |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 dwells | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 dwells | expl |
| 7 | dwells | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 lion | punct |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwells | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 alla | punct |
| 13 | alla | alla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 fear | mark |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beasts | amod |
| 16 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fear | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fear | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fear | advmod |
| 19 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ravage | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fear | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ravage | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 ravage | aux |
| 23 | ravage | ravage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dwells | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 country | amod |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ravage | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 ravage | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 pass | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pass | compound |
| 31 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | a lion king and alla | the long road; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||||
| 2 | not fear a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | other beasts | prince | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ravage | would | beasts = beast | the whole country | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | beasts = beast not said here | no one pass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme |
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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