The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 129
The prince mounted to the roof, and, getting into a corner, struck his fire-steel and burned one of the Sirurgh’s feathers in the flame.
Who acts: prince · What happens: mount, get, strike, burn · To what, where: prince, roof, corner, fire steel, one, flame
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), 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 | 15 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prince | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 struck | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 getting | punct |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 struck | csubj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 getting | punct |
| 15 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 steel | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 steel | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fire | punct |
| 19 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 struck | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 burned | cc |
| 21 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 struck | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 burned | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 feathers | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sirurgh | det |
| 25 | Sirurgh | Sirurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Sirurgh | case |
| 27 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 flame | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 flame | det |
| 30 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 burned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | participle | the prince not said here | the roof | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | a corner | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | the prince | prince's fire steel | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steel=Patient | ||||
| 4 | burn | past | the prince not said here | one of the Sirurgh's feathers | the flame | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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