The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 83
Asmund then told the prince about the two oak trees and took him to see them.
Who acts: Asmund · What happens: tell, take, see · To what, where: prince, husband · 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 (Asmund), 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 | Asmund | Asmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 trees | nummod |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trees | compound |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 prince | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Asmund | the prince | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient about tree=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | past | Asmund not said here | husband | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Asmund not said here | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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