The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 18
The prince drained off the wine and answered: “O king of the world! learn and know that I have only one aim in life, and this is to know what the rose did to the cypress.”
Who acts: prince, O king, this, rose · What happens: drain, answer, learn, know, have, be · To what, where: prince, wine, one aim, life · 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, O king, this, rose), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | drained | drain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 prince | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 wine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wine | det |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drained | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 drained | cc |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 learn | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 11 | O | o | X | _ | 12 king | compound |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 learn | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 king | punct |
| 17 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 learn | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 one | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 aim | nummod |
| 25 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 aim | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 know | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 know | cc |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 know | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | cop |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 know | mark |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 learn | conj |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 did | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rose | det |
| 36 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 did | nsubj |
| 37 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 know | ccomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 cypress | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cypress | det |
| 40 | cypress | cypress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 did | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drain | participle | the prince not said here | the wine | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme off wine=Source | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: express | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | learn in a quote | present | O king of the world | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | O king of the world not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | the prince = prince | one aim | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Patient | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | this | know property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | past | the rose | to the cypress | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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