The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 133
But there was no sign of the prince upon the roof; only, far away in the sky, the Simurgh was seen carrying him off.
Who acts: sign, Simurgh · What happens: be, see, carry off, sign · To what, where: Simurgh, sky, sign, prince
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 (sign, Simurgh), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 sign | det |
| 5 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sign | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prince | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 away | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 away | punct |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 away | advmod |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sky | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sky | det |
| 19 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sky | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Simurgh | det |
| 22 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 was | advcl |
| 25 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 seen | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carrying | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 carrying | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no sign of the prince upon the roof | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the Simurgh | the sky | away property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry off | gerund | the Simurgh not said here | sign | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sign | the prince upon the roof | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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