The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 48
“Dear brothers, would it not be better for us to live together as comrades, and everyone to hunt for the common dinner?
Who acts: it, us · What happens: not be, live together, hunt · To what, where: Dear brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, us), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 better | punct |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 better | nsubj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 better | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 better | cop |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 better | csubj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 live | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 comrades | case |
| 16 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 live | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 everyone | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 everyone | cc |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 brothers | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hunt | mark |
| 21 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 everyone | acl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 dinner | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dinner | det |
| 24 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dinner | amod |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hunt | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | would | it | Dear brothers not said here | good property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live together in a quote | to-infinitive | us | as comrades; together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hunt in a quote | to-infinitive | for the common dinner | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for dinner=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: «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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