The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 83
It instantly wrote the name of Prince Flame, his brother.
Who acts: drop · What happens: write, name · To what, where: name, Prince Flame
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 wrote | advmod |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Flame | case |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Flame | compound |
| 8 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | drop | the name of Prince Flame and Flame's brother | instantly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | name | Prince Flame | nom name «communication 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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