The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 94
First, there are the bow and arrows of his Reverence the Prophet Salih.
Who acts: bow, stuff · What happens: be, reverence
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 (bow, stuff), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 are | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bow | det |
| 6 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 are | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 arrows | cc |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bow | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Reverence | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Reverence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrows | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prophet | det |
| 13 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Reverence | appos |
| 14 | Salih | Salih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prophet | flat |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | the bow and arrows of stuff's Reverence | there | first property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | reverence | stuff | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=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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