The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 3
On my way here I was plundered at the Castle of Clashing Swords, and I saved this one thing only, hidden in my bathing-cloth.”
Who acts: I · What happens: plunder, clash, save, hide · To what, where: I, way, one thing, bathing cloth
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 (I), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plundered | obl |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 plundered | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plundered | aux:pass |
| 7 | plundered | plunder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Castle | det |
| 10 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 plundered | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Swords | case |
| 12 | Clashing | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Swords | amod |
| 13 | Swords | Sword | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Castle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saved | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saved | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 saved | nsubj |
| 17 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 plundered | conj |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 thing | det |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thing | nummod |
| 20 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saved | obj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 saved | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hidden | punct |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 plundered | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cloth | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cloth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cloth | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 bathing | punct |
| 28 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hidden | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 plundered | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 plundered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunder | past · passive | I | my way | at the Castle of Clashing Swords | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | clash | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | save | past | I | this one thing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | participle | my bathing cloth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloth=Location |
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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