The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 39
Now, although the prince had been transformed into the form of a deer, he kept his man’s heart and mind.
Who acts: prince · What happens: transform, keep, form · To what, where: prince, form, heart, deer
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 kept | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 transformed | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 transformed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 transformed | aux:pass |
| 8 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kept | advcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 form | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transformed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 deer | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deer | det |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 form | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 transformed | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 man | nmod:poss |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 man | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mind | cc |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past · perfect · passive | the prince | into the form of a deer result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into form=Result | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | prince | prince's man's heart and mind | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | a deer | nom form «communication 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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