The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 1
When the Lady Jamila heard that Prince Almas was near, she went out, with many a fair handmaid, to give him loving reception.
Who acts: Lady Jamila, Almas · What happens: hear, be, go out, give · To what, where: loving reception, Jamila · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Jamila, Almas), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jamila | det |
| 3 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jamila | compound |
| 4 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 near | mark |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Almas | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 near | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 near | cop |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 handmaid | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 handmaid | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 handmaid | nsubj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 handmaid | det |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 handmaid | amod |
| 20 | handmaid | handmaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 handmaid | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 reception | amod |
| 26 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Lady Jamila | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Almas Prince | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | Almas | with a fair handmaid | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with handmaid=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | loving reception | Jamila | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reception=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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