The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 12
The prince heard this in silence, and presently so beguiled the king with pleasant talk that to kill him was impossible.
Who acts: prince, pleasant talk, king · What happens: hear, beguile, kill, be · To what, where: this, silence, king
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 (prince, pleasant talk, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 silence | case |
| 6 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beguiled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beguiled | cc |
| 9 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 11 beguiled | advmod |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 beguiled | advmod |
| 11 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 heard | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beguiled | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 talk | case |
| 15 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 talk | amod |
| 16 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beguiled | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 talk | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 impossible | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 impossible | cop |
| 22 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kill | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the prince | this | silence | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | beguile | participle | the prince not said here | the king | with pleasant talk; presently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | pleasant talk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | king | impossible property | tree rules |
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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