The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 19
The prince smiled, and turned and addressed the assembly.
Who acts: prince · What happens: smile, turn, address · To what, where: assembly
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 (prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turned | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 turned | cc |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 smiled | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 addressed | cc |
| 8 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 assembly | det |
| 10 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 addressed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the prince not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | address | past | the prince not said here | the assembly | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assembly=Destination |
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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