The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 35
He tried to escape, but the magician sent for her goldsmith, who, coming, overlaid the deer-horns with gold and jewels.
Who acts: prince, magician, goldsmith · What happens: try, escape, send, come, overlay · To what, where: deer horns
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, magician, goldsmith), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 escape | mark |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 goldsmith | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 goldsmith | nmod:poss |
| 12 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 coming | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 goldsmith | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 overlaid | punct |
| 18 | overlaid | overlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 coming | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horns | det |
| 20 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 horns | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 deer | punct |
| 22 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 overlaid | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 gold | case |
| 24 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 horns | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 jewels | cc |
| 26 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 horns | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | prince | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | past | the magician | for magician's goldsmith | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | magician's goldsmith | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | overlay | participle | magician's goldsmith not said here | the deer horns and jewels | with gold | tree rules |
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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