The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 121
The princess accepted gladly, and was actually staying in the governor’s house at the very time when the king made up his mind to send Nur Mahomed there with the mysterious despatch.
Who acts: princess, king · What happens: accept, stay, make up, send, mind · To what, where: mind, house, Nur
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 (princess, 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 3 accepted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 staying | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 staying | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 staying | aux |
| 8 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 staying | advmod |
| 9 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 accepted | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 governor | det |
| 12 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 governor | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staying | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 time | advmod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staying | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 made | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 staying | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 made | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mind | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staying | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 send | mark |
| 27 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 staying | advcl |
| 28 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 send | obj |
| 29 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Nur | flat |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 send | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 despatch | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 despatch | det |
| 33 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 despatch | amod |
| 34 | despatch | despatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 send | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | the princess | gladly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay | past · progressive | the princess not said here | king's mind | the governor's house | time | actually property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mind=Location | |
| 3 | make up | participle | the king | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | send | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | Nur | there | with the mysterious despatch | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nur=Theme | ||
| 5 | mind | king | nom mind «cognition 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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