The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 139
Here they halted for a night, and at dawn said good-bye to the king-lion and set out for Jamila’s country.
Who acts: gifts · What happens: halt, say, set out · To what, where: good bye, king lion · 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 (gifts), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 halted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 halted | nsubj |
| 3 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 halted | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 dawn | case |
| 10 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 halted | conj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bye | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 14 | bye | bye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lion | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lion | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lion | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 king | punct |
| 19 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 halted | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 24 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 country | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Jamila | case |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | past | gifts = gift | here | night | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | gifts = gift not said here | good bye | the king lion | dawn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to lion=Recipient | ||
| 3 | set out | past | gifts = gift not said here | for Jamila's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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