The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 88
And a man replied, in a faltering voice, that each year a beautiful girl was chosen by lot to be offered up to a dreadful fiery dragon, who had a mother even worse than himself, and this year the lot had fallen on their peerless princess.
Who acts: man, lot, dreadful fiery dragon · What happens: reply, choose, offer up, have, fall · To what, where: faltering voice, beautiful girl, dreadful fiery dragon, mother
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, lot, dreadful fiery dragon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 voice | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | faltering | faltering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | compound |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chosen | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 chosen | mark |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 year | det |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chosen | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 girl | amod |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chosen | aux:pass |
| 18 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 lot | case |
| 20 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chosen | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 offered | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 offered | aux:pass |
| 23 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 chosen | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 offered | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 dragon | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dragon | det |
| 27 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dragon | amod |
| 28 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dragon | amod |
| 29 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 offered | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dragon | acl:relcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mother | det |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 35 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 worse | advmod |
| 36 | worse | badly | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 had | advmod |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 worse | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fallen | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fallen | cc |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 year | det |
| 42 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fallen | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 lot | det |
| 44 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fallen | nsubj |
| 45 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 fallen | aux |
| 46 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | conj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 princess | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 princess | nmod:poss |
| 49 | peerless | peerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 princess | amod |
| 50 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fallen | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | a man | a faltering voice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | choose | past · passive | lot | a beautiful girl | year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer up | to-infinitive · passive | lot not said here | a dreadful fiery dragon | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: to dragon=Goal | ||||
| 4 | have | past | a dreadful fiery dragon | a mother | badly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient | |||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | the lot | year | on men's peerless princess | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on princess=Location |
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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