The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 45
They came roaring up, and put fresh life into the prince.
Who acts: scourges · What happens: come, roar up, put · To what, where: fresh life
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 (scourges), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 roaring | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | scourges = scourge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | roar up | gerund | scourges = scourge not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | scourges = scourge not said here | fresh life | into the prince | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent life=Goal |
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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