The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 36
“The king’s daughter will marry the son of a poor slave-girl called Puruna, who belongs to the king of the land of the north.
Who acts: daughter, Puruna · What happens: marry, call, belong · To what, where: son, poor slave girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter, Puruna), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 marry | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 marry | aux |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 girl | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 slave | punct |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 girl | acl |
| 17 | Puruna | Puruna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 belongs | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 belongs | nsubj |
| 20 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Puruna | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 belongs | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 king | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 north | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 north | det |
| 29 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 land | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | future | the king's daughter | the son of a poor slave girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | participle | a poor slave girl not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | Puruna | to the king of the land of the north | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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