The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 125

I took Gul back to my palace, and from that time till now I have treated her as a dog is treated, and I have cared for my dog as though it were my wife.

Who acts: I, dog · What happens: take back, treat, care, be · To what, where: Gul, palace, I, dog, wife

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 (I, dog), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Gul	Gul	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 palace	nmod:poss
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 treated	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 treated	cc
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 treated	obl
13	till	till	ADP	_	14 now	case
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 time	nmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 treated	nsubj:pass
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 treated	aux
17	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 treated	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 treated	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 dog	det
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 treated	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 treated	aux:pass
23	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 treated	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cared	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cared	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 cared	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 cared	aux
28	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	parataxis
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 dog	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dog	nmod:poss
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cared	obl
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	37 wife	cc
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 as	fixed
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wife	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wife	cop
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cared	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	past	I	Gul	my palace			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gul=Theme to palace=Destination
2	treat	present · perfect · passive		I		time		tree rules
3	treat	present · passive		a dog				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	care	present · perfect	I				for my dog	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for dog=Theme
5	is a	past	dog	my wife				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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