The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 89
“Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded with the king, and said: ‘It is clear that your daughter’s fortunes are bound up with his, for the fire has not hurt him.
Who acts: Peris · What happens: see, consume, intercede, say, be, bind up · To what, where: Gul, fortunes, king · 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 (Peris), 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 | _ | 14 interceded | punct |
| 2 | Peris | Peris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 interceded | advcl |
| 6 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 love | nmod:poss |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consumed | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 consumed | obl |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 interceded | advmod |
| 14 | interceded | intercede | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 interceded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 interceded | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 clear | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 clear | punct |
| 23 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 clear | expl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 clear | cop |
| 25 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 bound | mark |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 daughter | case |
| 30 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 bound | aux:pass |
| 32 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 clear | csubj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 bound | compound:prt |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 his | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bound | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hurt | punct |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 fire | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fire | det |
| 39 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hurt | obl |
| 40 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 hurt | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 hurt | advmod |
| 42 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 hurt | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 interceded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past · perfect | Peris | Gul | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gul=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | consume in a quote | participle | Peris not said here | by peris's love; for me | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | intercede in a quote | past | now | with the king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bind up in a quote | present · passive | your daughter's fortunes | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | not hurt in a quote | present | king | for the fire | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | ||||
| 8 | love in a quote | peris | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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