The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 73
The prince prostrated himself in thanks to heaven and Jamila, and said: “O delicious person!
Who acts: prince · What happens: prostrate, say · To what, where: prince, thanks · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prostrated | nsubj |
| 3 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 prostrated | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 thanks | case |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prostrated | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thanks | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Jamila | cc |
| 10 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heaven | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prostrated | parataxis |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 person | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 person | punct |
| 16 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 17 delicious | discourse |
| 17 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prostrate | past | the prince | prince | thanks to heaven and Jamila | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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