The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 40
He said to himself, “Thank heaven that the Lady Latifa has changed me into this shape, for at least deer are beautiful.”
Who acts: prince, Lady Latifa, least deer · What happens: say, thank, change, be · To what, where: prince, heaven, shape · 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 (prince, Lady Latifa, least deer), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Thank | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Thank | punct |
| 7 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 changed | advcl |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Thank | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 changed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Latifa | det |
| 11 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Latifa | compound |
| 12 | Latifa | Latifa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 changed | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 changed | aux |
| 14 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 changed | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 shape | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 shape | det |
| 18 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 changed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 beautiful | case |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 least | case |
| 22 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 deer | amod |
| 23 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 beautiful | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 beautiful | cop |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 changed | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | prince | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | the Lady Latifa not said here | heaven | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change in a quote | present · perfect | the Lady Latifa | prince | into this shape result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into shape=Result | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | least deer | beautiful property | 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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