More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 110
So the three brothers went on horseback to look for some of these apples.
Who acts: three brothers · What happens: go, look · To what, where: horseback
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horseback | case |
| 7 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 some | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 apples | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 apples | det |
| 14 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 some | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the three brothers | horseback | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on horseback=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the three brothers not said here | for some | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for some=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: «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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