The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 59
The many kings and kings sons who have died at my hands have died because it was their fate to die like this.
Who acts: many kings, love · What happens: die, be · To what, where: hands, fate
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 (many kings, love), 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 | 3 kings | det |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kings | amod |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 died | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sons | cc |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sons | compound |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kings | conj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 died | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 died | aux |
| 9 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 kings | acl:relcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 died | obl |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 died | aux |
| 14 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 fate | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fate | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fate | cop |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 died | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 die | mark |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fate | acl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 die | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · perfect | the many kings and kings sons | my hands | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | die | present · perfect | the many kings and kings sons | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | love | hands's fate | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | the many kings and kings sons not said here | like this | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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