The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 53
Mihr-afruz was brought before the king, and the prince said: “This is the murderer of your sons; do with her as you will.”
Who acts: prince, This · What happens: bring, say, be, do · To what, where: Mihr afruz, murderer · 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 (prince, This), 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 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 afruz | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mihr | punct |
| 3 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 murderer | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 murderer | punct |
| 16 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 murderer | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 murderer | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 murderer | det |
| 19 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sons | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 murderer | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obl |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 will | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 will | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | Mihr afruz | before the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | This | the murderer | of your sons | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | with afruz | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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