The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 7
Banishing care, Prince Almas walked on through the garden, when suddenly a window opened and a girl, who was lovely enough to make the moon writhe with jealousy, put out her head.
Who acts: Prince, window, girl · What happens: banish, walk on, open, be, make, put out · To what, where: care, garden, moon writhe, head
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, window, 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 | Banishing | banish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 walked | advcl |
| 2 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Banishing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Banishing | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 walked | advmod |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 suddenly | advmod |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 opened | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 walked | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lovely | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lovely | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lovely | cop |
| 23 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girl | acl |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 lovely | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 lovely | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 writhe | det |
| 28 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 writhe | compound |
| 29 | writhe | writhe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 jealousy | case |
| 31 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 writhe | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 opened | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 put | compound:prt |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | gerund | Prince not said here | care | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk on | past | Prince | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | open | past | a window | suddenly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | a girl | enough, lovely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | a girl not said here | the moon writhe | with jealousy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writhe=Product | |||
| 6 | put out | infinitive | a girl | girl's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
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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