The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 1
Now the Simurgh had given the prince a diamond weighing thirty misqals, and he ordered this to the king, who at once recognised its value, and asked where it had been obtained.
Who acts: diamond, he, king, Simurgh · What happens: give, weigh, order, recognise, ask, obtain · To what, where: Simurgh, thirty misqals, this, value · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (diamond, he, king, Simurgh), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 given | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simurgh | det |
| 3 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 diamond | det |
| 9 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| 10 | weighing | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 diamond | acl |
| 11 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 misqals | nummod |
| 12 | misqals | misqal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 weighing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 ordered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 recognised | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 recognised | nsubj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 recognised | obl |
| 25 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 king | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 value | nmod:poss |
| 27 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recognised | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 asked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 asked | cc |
| 30 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ordered | conj |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 obtained | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 obtained | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 obtained | aux:pass |
| 35 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 asked | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Simurgh | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh | gerund | a diamond not said here | thirty misqals | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme misqal=Value | ||||
| 3 | order | past | he | this | to the king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 4 | recognise | past | the king | Simurgh's value | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | he not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | obtain | past · perfect · passive | Simurgh | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | value | Simurgh | nom value «cognition 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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