The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 137

He told the whole story of the rose and the cypress, and then, laden with gifts which the Simurgh had gathered from cities far and near, he set his face for the Castle of Clashing Swords.

Who acts: prince · What happens: tell, laden, gather, set, clash · To what, where: whole story, gifts, cities, face · 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 rose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rose	det
8	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cypress	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cypress	det
11	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laden	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 laden	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 laden	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laden	punct
16	laden	laden	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 gifts	case
18	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laden	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gathered	nsubj:pass
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Simurgh	det
21	Simurgh	Simurgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gathered	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gathered	aux
23	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 gifts	acl:relcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 cities	case
25	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 gathered	obl
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 gathered	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 near	cc
28	near	near	ADV	_	26 far	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	nsubj
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 face	nmod:poss
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 Castle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Castle	det
36	Castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 Swords	case
38	Clashing	clash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 Swords	amod
39	Swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 Castle	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	prince	the whole story of the rose and the cypress				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	laden	infinitive	prince not said here			then	with gifts	tree rules
3	gather	past · perfect · passive		gifts	cities		far property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from city=Source
4	set	past	prince	prince's face			for the Castle of Clashing Swords	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent face=Patient for castle=Beneficiary
5	clash	gerund						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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