The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 63
“In the end the two peris took me to the girl’s house.
What happens: take · To what, where: king, end
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: 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 | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peris | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 peris | nummod |
| 7 | peris | peri | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 took | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | past | king | in the end the two peris | to the girl's house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to house=Destination |
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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