The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 5
After a while he reached a palace which had a porch more splendid than Caesar’s, and was built of gold and silver bricks.
Who acts: prince, palace · What happens: reach, have, build · To what, where: palace, porch
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, palace), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 porch | det |
| 11 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 splendid | advmod |
| 13 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 had | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 Caesar | case |
| 15 | Caesar | Caesar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 splendid | obl |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Caesar | case |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 built | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 built | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 built | aux:pass |
| 20 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reached | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 built | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bricks | cc |
| 24 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bricks | compound |
| 25 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gold | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | prince | a palace | while | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a palace | a porch | splendid property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porch=Patient | |||
| 3 | build | past · passive | prince not said here | of gold and silver bricks | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» |
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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