The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 23
Then she called to the cupbearers for new wine, for she thought that when his head was hot with it he might consent to stay.
Who acts: lady, head, prince · What happens: call, think, be, consent, stay · To what, where: cupbearers · 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 (lady, head, prince), 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 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cupbearers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cupbearers | det |
| 6 | cupbearers | cupbearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 wine | case |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wine | amod |
| 9 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cupbearers | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hot | mark |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 hot | advmod |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hot | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hot | cop |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 consent | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hot | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 consent | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 consent | aux |
| 24 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 stay | mark |
| 26 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 consent | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | lady | the cupbearers for new wine | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cupbearer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | lady | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | prince's head | with wine; hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | consent | might | prince | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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