The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 27
Prince Asmund dearly loved all outdoor sports and an open-air life, and from his earliest childhood he had longed to live entirely in the forest close by.
Who acts: Prince, king · What happens: love, long, live · To what, where: outdoor sports, earliest childhood, forest
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, king), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | Asmund | Asmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 4 loved | advmod |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sports | det |
| 6 | outdoor | outdoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sports | amod |
| 7 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 life | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 air | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 open | punct |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 life | compound |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sports | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 longed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 longed | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 childhood | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 childhood | amod |
| 19 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 longed | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 longed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 longed | aux |
| 22 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 loved | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 live | mark |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 longed | xcomp |
| 25 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 24 live | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obl |
| 29 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forest | amod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 close | fixed |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Prince | all outdoor sports and a air life | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | long | past · perfect | king | king's earliest childhood | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | the forest | entirely property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
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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