The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 99
“O most delicious person! where is the Simurgh’s home?
Who acts: most delicious person · What happens: be
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 (most delicious person), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 where | punct |
| 2 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 person | case |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 person | amod |
| 4 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 where | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 where | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Simurgh | det |
| 10 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Simurgh | case |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 where | nsubj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | most delicious person | where property | tree rules |
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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