The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 25
Then he turned to the princess: “Tell us the truth, princess; who told you of this thing?
Who acts: God · What happens: turn, tell · To what, where: truth, us, you · 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 (God), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tell | punct |
| 9 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Tell | iobj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 truth | det |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tell | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 princess | punct |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tell | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thing | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 thing | det |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | God | then | to the princess result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to princess=Result | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | God not said here | the truth | us | princess obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient truth=Topic | ||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | you | of this thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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