The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 92
“To this the king agreed, and made formal marriage between Gul and me.
Who acts: king · What happens: agree, make · To what, where: formal marriage · 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), 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 | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 “ | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | ccomp |
| 10 | formal | formal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 marriage | amod |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 Gul | case |
| 13 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 marriage | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 me | cc |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 made | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree in a quote | past | the king | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | formal marriage | between Gul | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset marriage=Product |
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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