The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 32
The box was brought, and she divided off a portion of what was within and gave it to the prince to eat.
Who acts: fire · What happens: bring, divide off, give, eat · To what, where: box, portion, 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 (fire), 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 | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 divided | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 divided | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 divided | nsubj |
| 8 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | parataxis |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 divided | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 portion | det |
| 11 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 divided | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 portion | appos |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 within | cop |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 13 what | case |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 divided | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 prince | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gave | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the box | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | divide off | past | fire | a portion | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | fire not said here | portion | the prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to prince=Recipient | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | fire not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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