The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 71
She struck the deer hard, it pirouetted and became Prince Almas.
Who acts: Jamila, stick · What happens: strike, pirouette, become · To what, where: deer
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 (Jamila, stick), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 deer | det |
| 4 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 struck | obj |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 struck | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pirouetted | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pirouetted | nsubj |
| 8 | pirouetted | pirouette | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pirouetted | conj |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Almas | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Jamila | the deer | hard property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient | |||
| 2 | pirouette | past | stick | vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | stick not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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