The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 66
Now, all this time Prince Asmund and his sister sat in their trees just outside the window and saw all that was going on.
Who acts: Prince, that · What happens: sit, see, go on · To what, where: trees · Speech: someone speaks here
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, that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 sat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 time | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | Asmund | Asmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | flat |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sister | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | conj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 trees | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 window | advmod |
| 16 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sat | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 going | det:predet |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 going | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Prince all time and set's sister | prince's trees | now | outside the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | ||
| 2 | see | past | Prince all time and set's sister not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go on | past · progressive | that | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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