The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 110

The prince did all as he was told, then they took flight; they crossed the seven seas, and at each one the prince fed the Simurgh When they alighted on the shore of the last sea, it said: “O my son! there lies your road; follow it to the city.

Who acts: jins, prince, Simurgh · What happens: tell, take, cross, feed, alight, say · To what, where: prince, flight, seven seas, Simurgh, shore, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (jins, prince, Simurgh), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj:pass
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux:pass
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 took	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
13	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 crossed	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 crossed	nsubj
16	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seas	det
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 seas	nummod
19	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crossed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fed	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 one	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fed	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 prince	det
26	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fed	nsubj
27	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 crossed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Simurgh	det
29	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 fed	obj
30	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 alighted	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 alighted	nsubj
32	alighted	alight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 fed	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 shore	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 shore	det
35	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 alighted	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 sea	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
38	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 sea	amod
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shore	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
44	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 son	punct
45	O	o	INTJ	_	47 son	discourse
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 son	nmod:poss
47	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lies	obl
48	!	!	PUNCT	_	47 son	punct
49	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 lies	expl
50	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 said	parataxis
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 road	nmod:poss
52	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 lies	obj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 follow	punct
54	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 lies	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 follow	obj
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 city	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 city	det
58	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 follow	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive · do-support		the prince				all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	past	jins = jin	flight			then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
3	cross	past	jins = jin	the seven seas					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient
4	feed	past	the prince		the Simurgh			at each one	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simurgh=Recipient
5	alight	participle	jins = jin			the shore of the last sea			tree rules
6	say speech: express	past	Simurgh						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	lie in a quote	present		my son		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
8	follow in a quote	infinitive		road		the city			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme to city=Trajectory

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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