More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 67
Presently up come the other brothers the same time to the minute, and found him fast asleep; and they would not waken him, but said one to another, "Let us see what sort of apples he has got under his head."
Who acts: you, brothers, us, Jack · What happens: come, find, not waken, say, let, see · To what, where: other brothers, Jack, one, us, sort, apples · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers, us, Jack), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brothers | amod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 minute | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minute | det |
| 12 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 asleep | advmod |
| 18 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 found | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 waken | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 waken | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waken | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 waken | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 waken | advmod |
| 24 | waken | waken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waken | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 waken | advcl |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 said | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 another | case |
| 31 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 one | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Let | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Let | punct |
| 34 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 Let | obj |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 Let | xcomp |
| 37 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 38 sort | det |
| 38 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 see | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 apples | case |
| 40 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sort | nmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 got | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 got | aux |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 apples | acl:relcl |
| 44 | under | under | ADP | _ | 46 head | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 head | nmod:poss |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 got | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | the other brothers | time | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | find | past | you not said here | Jack | asleep property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | not waken | would | brothers = brother | Jack | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | brothers = brother not said here | one | to another | tree rules | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | what sort of apples | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | present · perfect | Jack | apples not said here | Jack's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | sort in a quote | apples | nom sort «cognition 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: «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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