The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 79
He rose and thanked God for his deliverance.
Who acts: prince · What happens: rise, thank, deliver · To what, where: God
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), 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 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 thanked | cc |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 deliverance | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thanked | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | prince not said here | God | for prince's deliverance | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for deliverance=Attribute | |||
| 3 | deliver | prince | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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