The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 45
And sure enough there was Brunhilda, joyfully hugging and kissing her beloved princess, and chattering as gaily as in the old days.
Who acts: Brunhilda · What happens: be, hug, kiss, chatter · To what, where: beloved princess
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 (Brunhilda), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 sure | cc |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 2 sure | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 6 | Brunhilda | Brunhilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hugging | punct |
| 8 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 9 hugging | advmod |
| 9 | hugging | hug | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sure | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kissing | cc |
| 11 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hugging | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 princess | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 princess | amod |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 chattering | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 chattering | cc |
| 17 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hugging | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 gaily | advmod |
| 19 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 chattering | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 days | amod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gaily | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Brunhilda | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hug | gerund | joyfully property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kiss | gerund | maiden's beloved princess | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | chatter | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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