The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 73
The next time Prince Ring came to see her she gave them to him, and he paid her many compliments on her skilful work, after which he took leave of her in the most friendly manner.
Who acts: Prince Ring, Signy, Ring · What happens: come, see, give, pay, take, work · To what, where: Signy, clothes, skilful work, leave, friendly manner
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 Ring, Signy, Ring), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ring | compound |
| 5 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 paid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 paid | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 paid | nsubj |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 paid | obj |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 compliments | amod |
| 21 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 paid | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 work | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 work | nmod:poss |
| 24 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 work | amod |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paid | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 took | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 paid | conj |
| 31 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 leave | nmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 manner | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 manner | det |
| 36 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 friendly | advmod |
| 37 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 manner | amod |
| 38 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Prince Ring | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Prince Ring not said here | Signy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Signy | clothes | to Ring | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | pay | past | Ring | Signy | Signy's skilful work | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient compliment=Asset | |||
| 5 | take | past | Ring | leave of Signy | the friendly manner | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leave=Value in manner=Location | |||
| 6 | work | Signy | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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