The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 138
The king-lion came out to meet him; he took the negro chief’s daughter—-whose name was also Gul—in lawful marriage, and then marched with her and her possessions and her attendants to the Place of Gifts.
Who acts: king lion, lion, name, Gul · What happens: come out, meet, take, be, march, name · To what, where: lion, daughter, Gul
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 lion, lion, name, Gul), 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 | 4 lion | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lion | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 14 | negro | negro | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chief | amod |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 chief | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Gul | punct |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 name | punct |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Gul | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Gul | cop |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 24 Gul | advmod |
| 24 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 marriage | punct |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 27 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 marriage | amod |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Gul | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 marched | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 marched | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 marched | advmod |
| 32 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 her | case |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 marched | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 possessions | cc |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 37 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 her | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 attendants | cc |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 40 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 her | conj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Place | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Place | det |
| 43 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 marched | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Gifts | case |
| 45 | Gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 Place | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the king lion | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the king lion not said here | lion | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | lion | the negro chief's daughter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Gul's name | Gul | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | march | past | lion not said here | then | with Gul; to the Place of Gifts result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | |||
| 6 | name | Gul | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | possess | Gul | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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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