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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

advmoddetnsubj:passauxdetobjdetobjaclnummodobjpunctccnsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjcaseoblconjnmod:possobjpunctccconjadvmodnsubj:passauxaux:passccomppunctrootNowADVtheDETSimurghPROPNhadAUXgivenVERBtheDETprinceNOUNaDETdiamondNOUNweighingVERBthirtyNUMmisqalsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONorderedVERBthisPRONtoADPtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONatADPonceADVrecognisedVERBitsPRONvalueNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBwhereADVitPRONhadAUXbeenAUXobtainedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem5 givenadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Simurghdet
3SimurghSimurghPROPNNumber=Sing5 givennsubj:pass
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 givenaux
5givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 princedet
7princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing5 givenobj
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 diamonddet
9diamonddiamondNOUNNumber=Sing5 givenobj
10weighingweighVERBVerbForm=Ger9 diamondacl
11thirtythirtyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 misqalsnummod
12misqalsmisqalNOUNNumber=Plur10 weighingobj
13,,PUNCT_16 orderedpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 orderedcc
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 orderednsubj
16orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 givenparataxis
17thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem16 orderedobj
18totoADP_20 kingcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 kingdet
20kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing16 orderedobl
21,,PUNCT_25 recognisedpunct
22whowhoPRONPronType=Rel25 recognisednsubj
23atatADP_24 oncecase
24onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult25 recognisedobl
25recognisedrecogniseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 kingconj
26itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 valuenmod:poss
27valuevalueNOUNNumber=Sing25 recognisedobj
28,,PUNCT_30 askedpunct
29andandCCONJ_30 askedcc
30askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 orderedconj
31wherewhereADVPronType=Rel35 obtainedadvmod
32ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 obtainednsubj:pass
33hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 obtainedaux
34beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part35 obtainedaux:pass
35obtainedobtainVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass30 askedccomp
36..PUNCT_5 givenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepast · perfect · passivethe Simurghnowtree rules
2weighgerunda diamond not said herethirty misqalsvn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme misqal=Value
3orderpasthethisto the kingvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
4recognisepastthe kingSimurgh's valuevn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus
5ask speech: askpasthe not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6obtainpast · perfect · passiveSimurghvn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme
7valueSimurghnom 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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