The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 61
He said goodbye, chose a fresh horse from the chief’s stable and once again took the road.
Who acts: king · What happens: say, choose, take · To what, where: goodbye, fresh horse, stable, road · 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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | goodbye | goodbye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chose | punct |
| 5 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chief | det |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stable | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chose | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 again | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chose | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | goodbye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goodbye=Topic | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | king not said here | a fresh horse | the chief's stable | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from stable=Source | |||
| 3 | take | past | king not said here | the road | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
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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