The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 86
The young Prince Ratibor, whose lands joined her father’s, had won the heart of the princess; and the lovers had been looking forward to the coming of their wedding-day when the bride’s mysterious disappearance took place.
Who acts: lands, young Ratibor, lovers, mysterious disappearance, bride · What happens: join, win, look, come, take, disappear · To what, where: father, heart, place
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 (lands, young Ratibor, lovers, mysterious disappearance), 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 | 4 Ratibor | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ratibor | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ratibor | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Ratibor | Ratibor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 won | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 joined | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 lands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 joined | nsubj |
| 8 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ratibor | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joined | obj |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ratibor | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 won | aux |
| 14 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 won | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 looking | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looking | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lovers | det |
| 23 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looking | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 looking | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 looking | aux |
| 26 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 won | advcl |
| 27 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 26 looking | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 30 coming | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 coming | det |
| 30 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 looking | advcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 day | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 wedding | punct |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coming | obl |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 took | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bride | det |
| 38 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 bride | case |
| 40 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 disappearance | amod |
| 41 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 took | nsubj |
| 42 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 coming | advcl |
| 43 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 took | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | lands | land's father | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | win | past · perfect | the young Ratibor Prince | the heart of the princess | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | look | past · perfect · progressive | the lovers | forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the lovers not said here | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the bride's mysterious disappearance | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 6 | disappear | the bride | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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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