The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 81
Then she asked: “O Prince Almas-ruh-bakhsh, do you still wish so much to make this journey to Waq of Qaf?
Who acts: Jamila, Almas · What happens: ask, wish, make · To what, where: much, journey · 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 (Jamila, Almas), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 Almas | discourse |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Almas | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ruh | punct |
| 10 | ruh | ruh | INTJ | _ | 12 bakhsh | discourse |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ruh | punct |
| 12 | bakhsh | bakhsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Almas | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wish | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 wish | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 wish | advmod |
| 17 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wish | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 much | acl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 journey | det |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Waq | case |
| 25 | Waq | Waq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 journey | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Qaf | case |
| 27 | Qaf | Qaf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Waq | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Jamila | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | Almas Prince | much | still | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | this journey | to Waq of Qaf | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |
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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