The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 34
Messengers were forthwith despatched to the garden house, and after awhile they returned bringing a negro whom they had discovered in a secret chamber underneath the throne of Mihr-afruz, dressed in a dress of honour, and surrounded with luxury.
Who acts: Messengers · What happens: despatch, bring, discover, dress, surround · To what, where: Messengers, negro, secret chamber, dress
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 (Messengers), 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 | Messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 despatched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despatched | aux:pass |
| 3 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 4 despatched | advmod |
| 4 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 despatched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bringing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bringing | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 awhile | case |
| 12 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 15 bringing | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bringing | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bringing | aux |
| 15 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 despatched | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 negro | det |
| 17 | negro | negro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bringing | obj |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 discovered | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 discovered | aux |
| 21 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 negro | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 chamber | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chamber | det |
| 24 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chamber | amod |
| 25 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 discovered | obl |
| 26 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 28 throne | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 throne | det |
| 28 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chamber | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 afruz | case |
| 30 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 afruz | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Mihr | punct |
| 32 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 throne | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dressed | punct |
| 34 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 chamber | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 dress | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 dress | det |
| 37 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dressed | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 honour | case |
| 39 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dress | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 surrounded | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 surrounded | cc |
| 42 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 despatched | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 luxury | case |
| 44 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despatch | past · passive | Messengers | to the garden house; forthwith property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Messengers = messenger | a negro | awhile property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent negro=Theme | |||
| 3 | discover | past · perfect · passive | a negro | a secret chamber underneath the throne of Mihr afruz | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dress | participle | a secret chamber underneath the throne of Mihr afruz not said here | a dress of honour | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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