The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 188
So, when the young couple arrived, the king received them with all state, and gave his son-in-law a province to govern.
Who acts: young couple, king · What happens: arrive, receive, give, govern · To what, where: people, province, son, law
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 (young couple, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 arrived | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 couple | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 couple | amod |
| 6 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 state | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 state | det |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | iobj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 law | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 province | det |
| 26 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 govern | mark |
| 28 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 gave | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the young couple | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | the king | people | with all state | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | the young couple not said here | a province | king's son | law | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient province=Theme | ||
| 4 | govern | to-infinitive | the young couple not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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