The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 64
This choicest place of earth filled him with wonder.
Who acts: choicest place · What happens: fill · To what, where: king
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 (choicest place), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 place | det |
| 2 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 earth | case |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 filled | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wonder | case |
| 9 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | this choicest place of earth | king | with wonder | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with wonder=Instrument |
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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