The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 115
From the first day of his coming he had made friends with a young cloth-merchant, and a great liking had sprung up between them.
Who acts: prince · What happens: come, make, spring up · To what, where: great liking
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 (prince), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sprung | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 friends | amod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 coming | ccomp |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 day | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 merchant | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 merchant | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 merchant | amod |
| 15 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 merchant | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 cloth | punct |
| 17 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sprung | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sprung | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 liking | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 liking | amod |
| 22 | liking | liking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sprung | aux |
| 24 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 sprung | compound:prt |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sprung | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 sprung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring up | past · perfect · passive | a great liking | day | between friends = friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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