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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 9

The king at once commanded every one to withdraw, and then Prince Almas said: “The desire of my life is to know what the rose did to the cypress, and what meaning there is in the words.”

Who acts: king, desire, rose, meaning · What happens: command, withdraw, say, be, do, desire · To what, where: one, words, life · 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 (king, desire, rose, meaning), 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

detnsubjmarkadvmodacl:relcldetobjmarkaclpunctccadvmodnmod:descnsubjpunctpunctdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodcopmarkconjobjdetnsubjccompcasedetoblpunctccccompnsubjexplacl:relclcasedetoblpunctpunctrootTheDETkingNOUNatSCONJonceADVcommandedVERBeveryDEToneNOUNtoPARTwithdrawVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVPrincePROPNAlmasPROPNsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTTheDETdesireNOUNofADPmyPRONlifeNOUNisAUXtoPARTknowVERBwhatPRONtheDETroseNOUNdidVERBtoADPtheDETcypressNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwhatPRONmeaningNOUNtherePRONisVERBinADPtheDETwordsNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing15 saidnsubj
3atatSCONJ_5 commandedmark
4onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult5 commandedadvmod
5commandedcommandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 kingacl:relcl
6everyeveryDETPronType=Tot7 onedet
7oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing5 commandedobj
8totoPART_9 withdrawmark
9withdrawwithdrawVERBVerbForm=Inf7 oneacl
10,,PUNCT_15 saidpunct
11andandCCONJ_15 saidcc
12thenthenADVPronType=Dem15 saidadvmod
13PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing14 Almasnmod:desc
14AlmasAlmasPROPNNumber=Sing15 saidnsubj
15saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16::PUNCT_25 knowpunct
17“"PUNCT_25 knowpunct
18ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 desiredet
19desiredesireNOUNNumber=Sing25 knownsubj
20ofofADP_22 lifecase
21mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 lifenmod:poss
22lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing19 desirenmod
23isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 knowcop
24totoPART_25 knowmark
25knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf15 saidconj
26whatwhatPRONPronType=Int29 didobj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 rosedet
28roseroseNOUNNumber=Sing29 didnsubj
29diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 knowccomp
30totoADP_32 cypresscase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 cypressdet
32cypresscypressNOUNNumber=Sing29 didobl
33,,PUNCT_35 whatpunct
34andandCCONJ_35 whatcc
35whatwhatPRONPronType=Int15 saidccomp
36meaningmeaningNOUNNumber=Sing38 isnsubj
37theretherePRONPronType=Dem38 isexpl
38isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 whatacl:relcl
39ininADP_41 wordscase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 wordsdet
41wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur38 isobl
42..PUNCT_35 whatpunct
43”"PUNCT_35 whatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1commandparticiplethe king not said hereevery oneonce propertyvn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2withdrawto-infinitivethe king not said hereevery one not said herevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3say speech: assertpastthe kingthenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4is in a quotepresentthe desire of my lifeknow propertytree rules
5do in a quotepastthe roseto the cypressvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6be in a quotepresentmeaningthe words; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in word=Location
7desire in a quotemy lifenom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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