The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 51
When the prince had kissed his feet and received his blessing, he took from a casket a little collyrium of Solomon, which the Simurgh had given him, and which reveals the hidden things of earth, and rubbed it on his father’s eyes.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: kiss, receive, take, give, reveal, rub · To what, where: prince, blessing, casket, Simurgh, hidden things, thing
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kissed | aux |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 took | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kissed | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 received | cc |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kissed | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 received | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kissed | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 casket | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 casket | det |
| 17 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 collyrium | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 collyrium | amod |
| 20 | collyrium | collyrium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 casket | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Solomon | case |
| 22 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 collyrium | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 given | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 given | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Simurgh | det |
| 26 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 given | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 given | aux |
| 28 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 collyrium | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 given | iobj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 reveals | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 reveals | cc |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 reveals | nsubj |
| 33 | reveals | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 things | det |
| 35 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 things | amod |
| 36 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 reveals | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 things | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rubbed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rubbed | cc |
| 41 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 rubbed | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 eyes | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 father | nmod:poss |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 father | case |
| 47 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rubbed | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past · perfect · passive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | Prince's blessing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Prince | a casket | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from casket=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | the Simurgh | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reveal | present | the hidden things of earth | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||||
| 6 | rub | past | Prince not said here | thing | Prince's father's eyes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on eye=Destination | |||
| 7 | bless | Prince | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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