The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 55

‘Our peri-king,’ they said, ‘has a daughter whom he keeps under his own eye and thinks the most lovely girl on earth.

Who acts: bird, king · What happens: say, have, keep, think · To what, where: daughter, own eye, lovely girl, earth · 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 (bird, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 peri	nmod:poss
3	peri	peri	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 peri	punct
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 daughter	det
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	obj
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 keeps	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 keeps	nsubj
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 daughter	acl:relcl
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 eye	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eye	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 eye	amod
21	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keeps	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thinks	cc
23	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 keeps	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girl	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 lovely	advmod
26	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girl	amod
27	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thinks	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 earth	case
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 girl	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bird			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present		a daughter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	keep	present	king	a daughter	king's own eye	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme under eye=Location
4	think speech: other	present	king not said here	the lovely girl	earth	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme

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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