The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 48
Taram-taq was left alone; he would have retired into his fort, but the prince shouted: “Whither away, accursed one?
Who acts: taq, prince · What happens: leave, retire, shout, accurs · To what, where: Taram taq, fort · 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 (taq, prince), 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 | Taram | Taram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 taq | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taram | punct |
| 3 | taq | taq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | xcomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 retired | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 retired | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 retired | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 retired | aux |
| 11 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 fort | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fort | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retired | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shouted | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 shouted | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shouted | nsubj |
| 19 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 away | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 away | punct |
| 22 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 shouted | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 25 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 one | amod |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shouted | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Taram taq | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | retire | would · perfect | taq | taq's fort | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the prince | away property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | accurs in a quote | participle | tree rules |
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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