The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 117
Now this province was four or five days’ journey from the palace, and the governor of it was the most faithful servant the king had.
Who acts: province, journey, king, four days · What happens: be, have, journey · To what, where: four, faithful servant, palace
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (province, journey, king, four days), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 four | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 province | det |
| 3 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 four | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 four | cop |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 days | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 five | cc |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 four | conj |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 days | case |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 servant | nsubj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 journey | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 governor | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 governor | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 governor | det |
| 17 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 journey | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 governor | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 servant | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 servant | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 faithful | advmod |
| 23 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 servant | amod |
| 24 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 servant | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this province | four | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | four days's journey from the palace and the governor of province | the faithful servant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the king | the faithful servant not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient | ||||
| 4 | journey | four days | the palace | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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