The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 54
The king fancied that the prince might care for the girl’s beauty, and replied: “You have humbled her; do with her as you will.”
Who acts: king, prince, You · What happens: fancy, care, reply, humble, do · To what, where: afruz · 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 (king, prince, You), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 care | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 care | nsubj |
| 7 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 care | aux |
| 8 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fancied | ccomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 beauty | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 care | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancied | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 humbled | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 humbled | punct |
| 19 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 humbled | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 humbled | aux |
| 21 | humbled | humble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 humbled | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancied | 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 | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | the king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | care | might | the prince | for the girl's beauty | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for beauty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | humble in a quote | present · perfect | You | afruz | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | 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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