The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 67

1 (return) [Translated from two Persian MSS. in the possession of the British Museum and the India Office, and adapted, with some reservations, by Annette S. Beveridge.]

Who acts: two Persian MSS · What happens: translate, adapt, possess · To what, where: 1, British Museum

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 (two Persian MSS), 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	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 Translated	nsubj:pass
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Translated	nsubj:pass
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 Translated	punct
6	Translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 MSS	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 MSS	nummod
9	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 MSS	amod
10	MSS	MSS	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Translated	obl:agent
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Translated	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 possession	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 possession	det
14	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Translated	obl:agent
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Museum	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Museum	det
17	British	British	PROPN	_	18 Museum	compound
18	Museum	Museum	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 possession	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Office	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Office	det
21	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Office	compound
22	Office	Office	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Museum	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 adapted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 adapted	cc
25	adapted	adapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Translated	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reservations	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 reservations	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 reservations	det
29	reservations	reservation	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 adapted	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 S.	punct
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 S.	case
32	Annette	Annette	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 S.	compound
33	S.	S.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 adapted	conj
34	Beveridge	Beveridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 S.	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Translated	punct
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 Translated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	translate	participle · passive	two Persian MSS	1		vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	adapt	past			with some reservations	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	possess			the British Museum and the India Office		nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient

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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