The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 22
All his gloom and misery vanished in a moment, and he anxiously questioned the welcome messenger as to the fate of the princess.
Who acts: gloom, magpie · What happens: vanish, question, fate · To what, where: welcome messenger, princess
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gloom, magpie), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 gloom | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gloom | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 misery | cc |
| 5 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gloom | conj |
| 6 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vanished | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 questioned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 questioned | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 questioned | nsubj |
| 13 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 14 questioned | advmod |
| 14 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 vanished | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 messenger | det |
| 16 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 messenger | amod |
| 17 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 questioned | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 fate | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fate | det |
| 21 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 questioned | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fate | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | magpie's gloom and misery | moment | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | magpie | the welcome messenger | as the fate of the princess; anxiously property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent messenger=Recipient as fate=Attribute | |||
| 3 | fate | the princess | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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