The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 5
He showed the utmost kindness and hospitality, and gave his wazir orders to instal the prince in the royal guest-house.
Who acts: king, wazir · What happens: show, give, order, instal · To what, where: utmost kindness, prince, royal guest house
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, wazir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kindness | det |
| 4 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kindness | amod |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hospitality | cc |
| 7 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kindness | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 showed | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wazir | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wazir | wazir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 orders | nsubj |
| 13 | orders | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 instal | mark |
| 15 | instal | instal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 orders | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 instal | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 20 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 house | amod |
| 21 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 guest | punct |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 instal | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | king | the utmost kindness and hospitality | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | order | present | king's wazir | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | instal not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's wazir not said here | the prince | the royal guest house | tree rules |
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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