The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 104
This was his wife’s brother, whom the king had taken into high favour, though, of course, the prince was quite ignorant of what had happened.
Who acts: This, king, prince · What happens: be, take, happen · To what, where: brother, high favour
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, king, prince), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brother | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 wife | case |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taken | punct |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 taken | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taken | aux |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 brother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 favour | case |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 favour | amod |
| 15 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 though | punct |
| 17 | though | though | ADV | _ | 12 taken | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 course | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 course | case |
| 20 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ignorant | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ignorant | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ignorant | cop |
| 25 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 26 ignorant | advmod |
| 26 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 what | case |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 ignorant | obl |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 happened | aux |
| 30 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | prince's wife's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the king | prince's wife's brother | high favour | of course; though property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into favour=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | past | the prince | of prince's wife's brother; ignorant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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