The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 127
“I shall keep my word,” said the prince; “but may a little water be taken to the roof so that I may make my last ablution?”
Who acts: prince, my · What happens: keep, say, take, make, word · To what, where: word, little water, roof, last ablution · 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 (prince, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 word | nmod:poss |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 water | amod |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 taken | aux:pass |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 roof | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 roof | det |
| 23 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obl |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 make | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 taken | advcl |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ablution | nmod:poss |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ablution | amod |
| 31 | ablution | ablution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | shall | the prince = prince | my word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | may · passive | a little water | the roof | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to roof=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | may | the prince = prince | my last ablution | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ablution=Product | ||||
| 5 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication 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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