The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 4
A few days later she entrusted her affairs to her wazir, and made preparation to go with the prince to his own country.
Who acts: marriage, preparation · What happens: entrust, make, go · To what, where: affairs, wazir, preparation, own country
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 (marriage, preparation), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 entrusted | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entrusted | nsubj |
| 6 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 entrusted | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wazir | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wazir | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wazir | wazir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entrusted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entrusted | conj |
| 15 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | past | marriage | marriage's affairs | marriage's wazir | late property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent affair=Theme to wazir=Recipient | ||
| 2 | make | past | marriage not said here | preparation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | preparation not said here | Prince's own country | with the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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