The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 28
But it was all in vain; three days passed in such festivities, and on the fourth the prince said: “O joy of my eyes!
Who acts: head, prince · What happens: be, pass, say, joy · To what, where: three days, such festivities, O joy, fourth, eyes · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 vain | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 vain | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vain | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 vain | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vain | case |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 days | punct |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 days | nummod |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vain | parataxis |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 days | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 festivities | case |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 festivities | amod |
| 13 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fourth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fourth | det |
| 18 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vain | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 joy | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 joy | punct |
| 24 | O | o | X | _ | 25 joy | compound |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 joy | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 vain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | head | all, vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | three days not said here | such festivities | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in festivity=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | O joy of my eyes | the fourth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | joy in a quote | my eyes | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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