The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 40
When news of his champion’s death reached Taram-taq he put himself at the head of an army of his negroes and led them forth.
Who acts: news, prince, champion · What happens: reach, put, lead, die · To what, where: Taram taq, prince, head, dagger
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 (news, prince, champion), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 champion | nmod:poss |
| 5 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 champion | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | advcl |
| 9 | Taram | Taram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taq | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Taram | punct |
| 11 | taq | taq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | nsubj |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 army | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 army | det |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 negroes | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 negroes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 army | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 led | cc |
| 25 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 put | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 led | obj |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 led | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | news of prince's champion's death | Taram taq | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent taq=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | past | prince | prince | the head of a army of prince's negroes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at head=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead | past | prince not said here | dagger | forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | die | prince's champion | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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