The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 190
Nur Mahomed’s old mother lived for a long time in her “son’s” palace, and died in peace.
Who acts: old mother · What happens: live, die · To what, where: son 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 (old mother), 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 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nur | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Nur | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mother | amod |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 palace | punct |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | compound |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 son | case |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 died | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 died | cc |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 peace | case |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Nur's old mother | mother's son palace | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | Nur's old mother not said here | in peace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in peace=Attribute |
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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