The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 55
So he played about the girl and let her catch him by the neck.
Who acts: prince, girl · What happens: play, let, catch · To what, where: girl, prince
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, girl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 played | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 girl | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 played | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 neck | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neck | det |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 catch | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | prince | about the girl | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | prince not said here | girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | infinitive | girl not said here | prince | by the neck | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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