The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 4
In return for the diamond, King Sinaubar showered gifts of much greater value, for he remembered that it was the last possession of the prince.
Who acts: King, value · What happens: shower, remember, be, gift · To what, where: gifts, return, last possession, greater value · 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 (King, value), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 return | case |
| 2 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showered | obl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 diamond | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 diamond | det |
| 5 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 return | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 return | punct |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 showered | nsubj |
| 8 | Sinaubar | Sinaubar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 showered | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 value | case |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 greater | advmod |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 value | amod |
| 14 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gifts | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remembered | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 remembered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 remembered | nsubj |
| 18 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 showered | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 possession | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 possession | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 possession | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 possession | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 possession | amod |
| 24 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remembered | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 prince | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 possession | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 showered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | past | King | gifts of greater value | return for the diamond | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gift=Theme in return=Destination | |||
| 2 | remember | past | king | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | value | the last possession | of the prince | tree rules | |||
| 4 | gift | greater value | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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