The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 74
So, in spite of his protests, and the wails of his mother, he was carried off, and in due time brought before the king.
Who acts: lad, mother · What happens: carry off, bring, spite, protest, wail · To what, where: lad, spite, protests
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 (lad, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carried | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 protests | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 protests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | protests | protest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spite | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wails | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wails | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wails | det |
| 11 | wails | wail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spite | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mother | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wails | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carried | aux:pass |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 brought | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 brought | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 time | amod |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 carried | conj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry off | past · passive | lad | spite of lad's protests and the wails of lad's mother | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in spite=Location | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | before the king; time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before king=Destination | |||||
| 3 | spite | lad's protests | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | protest | lad | nom protest «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | wail | lad's mother | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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