The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 132
After a time King Sinaubar said: “That young man is a long time on the roof; go and bring him here.”
Who acts: King, young man · What happens: say, be, go, bring · To what, where: long time, roof, man · 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 (King, young man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Sinaubar | Sinaubar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 9 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bring | cc |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 bring | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | King | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | that young man | a long time | the roof | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | infinitive | man | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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