The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 40
So he suffered himself to be borne in triumph to the palace, where the princess threw herself into his arms.
Who acts: Knight, princess · What happens: suffer, bear, throw · To what, where: Knight, triumph, princess, arms
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Knight, princess), 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 | _ | 3 suffered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suffered | nsubj |
| 3 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 suffered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 borne | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 borne | aux:pass |
| 7 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 suffered | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 triumph | case |
| 9 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 borne | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 threw | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | nsubj |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 palace | acl:relcl |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 threw | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 arms | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 threw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | Knight | Knight | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bear | to-infinitive · passive | Knight not said here | triumph | to the palace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||
| 3 | throw | past | the princess | princess | into Knight's arms result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into arm=Result |
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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