The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 2
Then he let fall the Bismillah from his lips, entered the garden and walked through it till he came to the private part, delighting in the great trees, the lovely verdure, and the flowery borders.
Who acts: prince, flowery borders · What happens: let, fall, enter, walk, come, delight · To what, where: flowery borders, Bismillah, lips, garden, private part, great trees
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, flowery borders), 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 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bismillah | det |
| 6 | Bismillah | Bismillah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lips | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | obl |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 23 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 delighting | punct |
| 26 | delighting | delight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 came | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 trees | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 trees | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 trees | amod |
| 30 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 delighting | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 verdure | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 verdure | det |
| 33 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 verdure | amod |
| 34 | verdure | verdure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 trees | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 borders | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 borders | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 borders | det |
| 38 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 borders | amod |
| 39 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | prince | the flowery borders | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | the flowery borders not said here | the Bismillah | prince's lips | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bismillah=Extent from lip=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | enter | past | prince not said here | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | prince not said here | garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | come | past | prince | the private part | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | delight | gerund | prince not said here | the great trees and the lovely verdure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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