The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 3
Prince Almas, relying on the Causer of Causes, rode on to the Place of Gifts and dismounted at the platform.
Who acts: Almas · What happens: rely, ride on, dismount · To what, where: Place, platform
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 (Almas), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Almas | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 relying | punct |
| 4 | relying | rely | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Almas | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Causer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Causer | det |
| 7 | Causer | Causer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 relying | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Causes | case |
| 9 | Causes | Cause | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Causer | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Almas | punct |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 rode | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Place | det |
| 15 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Gifts | case |
| 17 | Gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Place | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dismounted | cc |
| 19 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rode | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 platform | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 platform | det |
| 22 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dismounted | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rely | gerund | Almas Prince not said here | on the Causer of Causes | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on causer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride on | past | Almas Prince | the Place of Gifts | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | dismount | participle | Almas Prince not said here | the platform | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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