The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 182
The next day the governor despatched the princess and her bridegroom to the king, with a troop of horsemen, splendidly dressed, and he sent a mounted messenger on before them, with a letter giving the account of the marriage to the king.
Who acts: governor, king, letter · What happens: despatch, dress, send, mount, give, account · To what, where: princess, horsemen, mounted messenger, account, king, marriage
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 (governor, king, letter), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 governor | det |
| 5 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | nsubj |
| 6 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bridegroom | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 princess | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bridegroom | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 troop | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 troop | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 troop | det |
| 18 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 horsemen | case |
| 20 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 troop | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dressed | punct |
| 22 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 23 dressed | advmod |
| 23 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 horsemen | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sent | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sent | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sent | nsubj |
| 27 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 despatched | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 messenger | det |
| 29 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 messenger | amod |
| 30 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sent | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 letter | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 letter | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 letter | det |
| 37 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | obl |
| 38 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 letter | acl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 account | det |
| 40 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 giving | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 marriage | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 marriage | det |
| 43 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 account | nmod |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 king | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 king | det |
| 46 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 giving | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despatch | past | the governor | the princess and princess's bridegroom to the king | day | with a troop of horsemen | tree rules | ||
| 2 | dress | participle | horsemen not said here | splendidly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | send | past | king | a mounted messenger | on governors = governor; with a letter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | |||
| 4 | mount | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give | gerund | a letter not said here | the account of the marriage | the king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent account=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 6 | account | the marriage | nom account «communication 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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