The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 42
In a moment of respite from attack he struck his fire-steel and burned a hair of the king-lion; and he had just succeeded in this when the negroes charged again and all but took him prisoner.
Who acts: prince, negroes · What happens: strike, burn, succeed, charge, take · To what, where: fire steel, hair, this, prince
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, negroes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 respite | case |
| 5 | respite | respite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 attack | case |
| 7 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 respite | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 steel | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steel | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fire | punct |
| 13 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 burned | cc |
| 15 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hair | det |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burned | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lion | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lion | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lion | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 king | punct |
| 22 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hair | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 succeeded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 succeeded | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 succeeded | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 succeeded | aux |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 succeeded | advmod |
| 28 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 struck | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 this | case |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 succeeded | obl |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 charged | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 negroes | det |
| 33 | negroes | negro | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 charged | nsubj |
| 34 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 succeeded | advcl |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 charged | advmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 all | cc |
| 37 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 again | conj |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 took | cc |
| 39 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 succeeded | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 took | obj |
| 41 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 took | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | prince | prince's fire steel | moment | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steel=Patient | |||
| 2 | burn | past | prince not said here | a hair of the king lion | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | succeed | past · perfect | prince | this | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | charge | past | the negroes | again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | prince not said here | prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Theme prisoner=Destination |
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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