The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 6
The prince advanced and saluted it; it proudly drooped its head and forelocks and paced to the platform.
Who acts: prince advanced, way · What happens: salute, droop, forelock, pace · To what, where: way, head, 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 (prince advanced, way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 advanced | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advanced | compound |
| 3 | advanced | advanced | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saluted | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saluted | cc |
| 5 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saluted | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 drooped | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drooped | nsubj |
| 9 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 10 drooped | advmod |
| 10 | drooped | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saluted | parataxis |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drooped | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forelocks | cc |
| 14 | forelocks | forelock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 drooped | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 paced | cc |
| 16 | paced | pace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 forelocks | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 platform | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 platform | det |
| 19 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paced | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | salute | past | the prince advanced | way | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | droop | past | way | way's head | proudly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||
| 3 | forelock | present | way not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pace | participle | way not said here | the platform | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to platform=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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