The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 92
Over all the vast under-world the mountain Gnome Rübezahl was lord; and busy enough the care of his dominions kept him.
Who acts: mountain, care, dominions · What happens: be, keep, care · To what, where: lord, Gnome
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 (mountain, care, dominions), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 4 vast | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 vast | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vast | det |
| 4 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 under | punct |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vast | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lord | nsubj |
| 10 | Gnome | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mountain | appos |
| 11 | Rübezahl | Rübezahl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gnome | flat |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lord | cop |
| 13 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 world | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 kept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kept | cc |
| 16 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kept | advcl |
| 17 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 16 busy | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 care | det |
| 19 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dominions | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 care | nmod |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vast | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kept | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the mountain | lord | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the care of care's dominions | Gnome | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | care | care's dominions | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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