The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 26
She was extraordinarily beautiful, and shamed the glorious sun. The king ordered a hundred stripes to be laid on her tender body; she sighed a long sigh.
Who acts: woman, glorious sun. · What happens: be, shame, order, lay, sigh · To what, where: hundred stripes, tender body, long sigh
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 (woman, glorious sun.), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | extraordinarily | extraordinarily | ADV | _ | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shamed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shamed | cc |
| 7 | shamed | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun. | det |
| 9 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sun. | amod |
| 10 | sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ordered | nsubj |
| 13 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shamed | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hundred | det |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stripes | nummod |
| 16 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ordered | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 laid | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 laid | aux:pass |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ordered | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 body | amod |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 laid | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 sighed | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sighed | nsubj |
| 26 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sigh | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sigh | amod |
| 29 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sighed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | woman | beautiful, extraordinarily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shame | past | woman not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | order | past | the glorious sun. | hundred stripes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | to-infinitive · passive | the glorious sun. not said here | woman's tender body | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on body=Destination | ||||
| 5 | sigh | past | woman | a long sigh | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Topic |
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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