The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 50
This time the prince, too, was embarrassed, and questioned the merchant closely.
What happens: be, question · To what, where: merchant
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 embarrassed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 time | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 embarrassed | cop |
| 9 | embarrassed | embarrassed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 questioned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 questioned | cc |
| 12 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 embarrassed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 questioned | obj |
| 15 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 12 questioned | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 embarrassed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | time | embarrassed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | the merchant | closely property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient |
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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