The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 81
I was put in prison and the world grew dark to my rose, bereft of her lover.
Who acts: world · What happens: put, grow · To what, where: I, prison
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 (world), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 prison | case |
| 5 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grew | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rose | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 rose | nmod:poss |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bereft | punct |
| 15 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rose | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lover | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lover | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bereft | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | I | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in prison=Destination | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | the world | to my rose; dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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