The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 48
When all was ready, Prince Almas set out for home, taking with him Jamila, and Dil-aram and Gul, daughter of Taram-taq, and the wicked Mihr-afruz, and all the belongings of the four, packed on horses and camels, and in carts without number.
Who acts: all, Prince · What happens: be, set out, take, pack · To what, where: Jamila, belongings
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 (all, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nsubj |
| 7 | Almas | Almas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | flat |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 set | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taking | obl |
| 16 | Jamila | Jamila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 aram | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 aram | cc |
| 19 | Dil | Dil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 aram | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dil | punct |
| 21 | aram | aram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Gul | cc |
| 23 | Gul | Gul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 aram | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 daughter | punct |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 aram | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 taq | case |
| 27 | Taram | Taram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 taq | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Taram | punct |
| 29 | taq | taq | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 daughter | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 afruz | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 afruz | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 afruz | det |
| 33 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 afruz | amod |
| 34 | Mihr | mihr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 afruz | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mihr | punct |
| 36 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 aram | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 belongings | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 belongings | cc |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 belongings | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 belongings | det |
| 41 | belongings | belonging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ready | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 four | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 four | det |
| 44 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 belongings | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 packed | punct |
| 46 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 belongings | acl |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 horses | case |
| 48 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 packed | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 camels | cc |
| 50 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 horses | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 carts | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 carts | cc |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 carts | case |
| 54 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 horses | conj |
| 55 | without | without | ADP | _ | 56 number | case |
| 56 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 carts | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | Dil aram and Gul and daughter of Taram taq and the wicked Mihr afruz obl; all belongings of the four obl; ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | Prince | for home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Prince not said here | Jamila | with Prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument jamila=Destination | |||
| 4 | pack | participle | all belongings of the four not said here | on horses and camels and carts without number | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on horse=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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