The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 23
The king tore his robes, dashed his golden crown from his head, and hid his face in his purple mantle for grief and anguish at the loss of the princess.
Who acts: king · What happens: tore, dash, hide, anguish, crown · To what, where: robes, golden crown, head, face, purple mantle, loss
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 (king), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tore | nsubj |
| 3 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 robes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tore | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dashed | punct |
| 7 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tore | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crown | nmod:poss |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crown | amod |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashed | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dashed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hid | cc |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tore | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mantle | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mantle | amod |
| 22 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 grief | case |
| 24 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mantle | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 anguish | cc |
| 26 | anguish | anguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 hid | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 loss | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 loss | det |
| 29 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 anguish | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 princess | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 princess | det |
| 32 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 loss | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | the king | king's robes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | the king not said here | king's golden crown | king's head | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from head=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hide | past | king's face | king's purple mantle for grief | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in mantle=Location | ||||
| 4 | anguish | present | the loss of the princess | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | crown | king | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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