The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 22
To this the prince agreed, and said: “I set my foot firmly on this compact.”
Who acts: prince · What happens: agree, say, set · To what, where: foot, compact · 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 agreed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 foot | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 15 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 compact | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 compact | det |
| 18 | compact | compact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the prince | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set in a quote | past | the prince = prince | my foot | this compact | firmly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on compact=Destination |
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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