The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 79
Even when he was a deer the prince had much admired Jamila now he thought her a thousand times more lovely than before.
Who acts: youth · What happens: be, admire, think · To what, where: deer, Jamila
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 (youth), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 deer | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 deer | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 deer | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deer | det |
| 6 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 admired | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 admired | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 admired | aux |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 admired | advmod |
| 11 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 admired | obj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 thought | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 admired | advcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thousand | det |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 more | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 lovely | advmod |
| 21 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 before | case |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 lovely | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | youth | a deer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admire | past · perfect · passive | a deer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | youth | Jamila | now | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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