The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 94
“Those were my two brothers whom you killed, and now your blood shall pay for them.”
Who acts: Those, you, blood · What happens: be, kill, pay · To what, where: two brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those, you, blood), 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 | _ | 6 brothers | punct |
| 2 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 brothers | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brothers | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 killed | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pay | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 pay | advmod |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 blood | nmod:poss |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pay | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 pay | aux |
| 16 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 killed | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pay | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Those | my two brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | you | my two brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | shall | your blood | now | for brothers = brother | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=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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