The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 24
The pure, clear wine was brought; she filled a cup and gave to him.
Who acts: lady · What happens: bring, fill, give · To what, where: pure clear wine, cup, prince
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wine | det |
| 2 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wine | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pure | punct |
| 4 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wine | amod |
| 5 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 filled | nsubj |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cup | det |
| 12 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the pure clear wine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill | past | lady | a cup | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | lady not said here | prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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