The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 136
At length it dropped straight down to its own place, where the kind prince was welcomed by the young birds and most hospitably entertained.
Who acts: earth, young birds · What happens: drop, welcome · To what, where: length, kind 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 (earth, young birds), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dropped | nsubj |
| 4 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 down | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 dropped | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dropped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 welcomed | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 welcomed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 14 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 17 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dropped | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 birds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birds | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 birds | amod |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 welcomed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entertained | cc |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 hospitably | advmod |
| 24 | hospitably | hospitably | ADV | _ | 25 entertained | advmod |
| 25 | entertained | entertained | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 welcomed | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | earth | length | to earth's own place; down property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | the young birds | the kind prince | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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