The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 87
After this Prince Asmund and his bride returned to his country to live with the king his father.
Who acts: Asmund · What happens: return, live · To what, where: father
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 Asmund | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Asmund | nsubj |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Asmund | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Asmund | Asmund | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bride | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Asmund | conj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 returned | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Asmund Prince and husband's bride | to husband's country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Asmund Prince and husband's bride not said here | husband's father | with the king | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with king=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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