The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 23
The king then gave an order to an attendant; a costly carpet overlaid with European velvet was placed near him, and a dog was led in by a golden and jewelled chain and set upon the splendid stuffs.
Who acts: king · What happens: give, overlay, place, lead in, jewell, set · To what, where: order, attendant, costly carpet, dog, chain, splendid stuffs
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), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 order | det |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 attendant | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 attendant | det |
| 9 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 placed | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 carpet | det |
| 12 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carpet | amod |
| 13 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | overlaid | overlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 carpet | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 velvet | case |
| 16 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 velvet | amod |
| 17 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 overlaid | obl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 placed | aux:pass |
| 19 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | conj |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 placed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 led | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 led | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dog | det |
| 25 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 led | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 led | aux:pass |
| 27 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 led | compound:prt |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 golden | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 golden | det |
| 31 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 led | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 jewelled | cc |
| 33 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 led | conj |
| 34 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 jewelled | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 set | cc |
| 36 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 jewelled | conj |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 stuffs | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stuffs | det |
| 39 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 stuffs | amod |
| 40 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 set | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | a order | a attendant | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to attendant=Recipient | ||
| 2 | overlay | participle | a costly carpet not said here | with European velvet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | a costly carpet | near king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme near he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lead in | past · passive | a dog | by a golden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by golden=Destination | ||||
| 5 | jewell | past | chain | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | the splendid stuffs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon stuff=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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