The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 8
She lost her heart to the good looks of the prince, and sent her nurse to fetch him so that she might learn where he came from and how he had got into her private garden where even lions and wolves did not venture.
Who acts: girl, prince, lions · What happens: lose, send, fetch, learn, come, get · To what, where: heart, nurse, prince, private garden
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 (girl, prince, lions), 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 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 looks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 looks | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looks | amod |
| 8 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lost | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sent | cc |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fetch | mark |
| 18 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fetch | obj |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 learn | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 learn | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | aux |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fetch | advcl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 came | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | advcl |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 came | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 got | cc |
| 30 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 got | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 got | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 got | aux |
| 33 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 came | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 garden | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 garden | nmod:poss |
| 36 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 garden | amod |
| 37 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 got | obl |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 venture | advmod |
| 39 | even | even | ADV | _ | 40 lions | advmod |
| 40 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 venture | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 wolves | cc |
| 42 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 lions | conj |
| 43 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 venture | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 venture | advmod |
| 45 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 garden | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | girl | girl's heart | to the good looks of the prince | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | send | past | girl not said here | girl's nurse | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | girl not said here | prince | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | learn | might | girl | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come | past | prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | get | past · perfect | prince | girl's private garden | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | ||||
| 7 | not venture | past · do-support | lions and wolves | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how 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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