The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 95
“I remember,” said the prince; “but tell me what brought Queen Gul to her present pass?”
Who acts: prince, Queen · What happens: remember, say, tell, bring, pass · To what, where: prince, Queen, present pass · 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 (prince, Queen), 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 | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tell | cc |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Queen | flat |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pass | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pass | nmod:poss |
| 20 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pass | amod |
| 21 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | present | the prince = prince | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the prince = prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | bring in a quote | past | Queen | Queen's present pass | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent queen=Theme to pass=Destination | ||||
| 5 | pass in a quote | Queen | nom pass «act 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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