The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 16
But at length curiosity prevailed, and she and her companions explored to their heart’s content, and tasted and examined everything, running hither and thither in high glee, and calling merrily to each other.
Who acts: princess · What happens: prevail, explore, taste, examine, run, call · To what, where: length curiosity, everything, high glee, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 prevailed | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 curiosity | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 curiosity | compound |
| 4 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prevailed | obl |
| 5 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 explored | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 explored | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 explored | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 companions | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 companions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 she | conj |
| 12 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevailed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 content | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 content | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 17 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 explored | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tasted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tasted | cc |
| 20 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prevailed | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 examined | cc |
| 22 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tasted | conj |
| 23 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 22 examined | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 running | punct |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 examined | advcl |
| 26 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 25 running | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thither | cc |
| 28 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 26 hither | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 glee | case |
| 30 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 glee | amod |
| 31 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 running | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 calling | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 calling | cc |
| 34 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 prevailed | advcl |
| 35 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 34 calling | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 each | case |
| 37 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 34 calling | obl |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 each | fixed |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | past | length curiosity | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at curiosity=Location | |||||
| 2 | explore | past | princess | to companions's heart's content | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | taste | past | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | examine | past | everything | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | high glee | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glee=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | call | gerund | each | merrily property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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