The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 12
Then the king-lion beckoned the prince to come near and said: “Sleep at ease; my guards will watch.”.
Who acts: king lion, guards · What happens: beckon, come, say, watch · To what, where: prince, Sleep · 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 (king lion, guards), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 beckoned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lion | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beckoned | nsubj |
| 6 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beckoned | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beckoned | advcl |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beckoned | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sleep | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sleep | punct |
| 16 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 ease | case |
| 18 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Sleep | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 watch | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 guards | nmod:poss |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 watch | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 watch | aux |
| 23 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beckoned | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 watch | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 watch | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | the king lion | the prince | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | the king lion not said here | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king lion not said here | Sleep at ease | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | watch in a quote | future | my guards | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
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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