The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 4
Their brothers, who had been left behind as too young and weak to see the world, knew nothing of all this, but supposed their turn would soon come to see the world also.
Who acts: turn · What happens: leave behind, see, know, suppose, come · To what, where: brothers, world, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 left | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 left | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 7 left | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 young | case |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 young | advmod |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 left | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 weak | cc |
| 13 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 young | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 weak | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knew | punct |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | parataxis |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 knew | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 this | det:predet |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 supposed | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 supposed | cc |
| 26 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 knew | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 turn | nmod:poss |
| 28 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 come | aux |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 come | advmod |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 supposed | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 see | mark |
| 33 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 come | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 see | obj |
| 36 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 see | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave behind | past · perfect · passive | wings's brothers | as young; behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know | past | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | suppose | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | would | wings's turn | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | wings's turn not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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