The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 62
The prince gave ear to the argument from pre-ordainment, and as she was a very lovely maiden he took her too in lawful marriage.
Who acts: prince, Almas · What happens: give, be, take · To what, where: ear, argument, lovely maiden, Almas, lawful marriage
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, Almas), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 argument | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 argument | det |
| 7 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 pre-ordainment | case |
| 9 | pre-ordainment | pre-ordainment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 argument | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 maiden | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 maiden | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 maiden | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 lovely | advmod |
| 17 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maiden | amod |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | advcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 24 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 marriage | amod |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the prince | ear | the argument from pre-ordainment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to argument=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Almas | a lovely maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Prince | Almas | lawful marriage | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in marriage=Location |
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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