The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 46
Presently a girl of such moon-like beauty opened a window that the prince lost to her a hundred hearts.
Who acts: girl, prince · What happens: open, lose · To what, where: window, hundred hearts, girl
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 (girl, 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 10 opened | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beauty | amod |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 like | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 moon | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beauty | amod |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | nmod |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hundred | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hearts | nummod |
| 21 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lost | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | a girl of such like beauty | a window | presently property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | past | the prince | hundred hearts | girl | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
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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