More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 107
We must be yonder to-night," says the Bull, "for my young brother lives yonder;" and they were there directly.
Who acts: We, daughters · What happens: be, say, live · To what, where: Bull · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, daughters), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 night | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 night | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 night | cop |
| 4 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 7 night | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Bull | det |
| 12 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brother | amod |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 says | parataxis |
| 20 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 19 lives | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 there | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 there | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 there | cop |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lives | conj |
| 27 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 26 there | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | We | to night | yonder property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the Bull | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | present | for my young brother; yonder property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | daughters = daughter | directly, there property | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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