The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 106

After a long search twin brothers were found, so exactly resembling each other that even their own mother could not tell the difference.

Who acts: own mother · What happens: find, resemble, not tell · To what, where: long search twin brothers, each, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own mother), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brothers	amod
4	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brothers	compound
5	twin	twin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brothers	compound
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 resembling	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 resembling	advmod
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 resembling	advmod
12	resembling	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 found	ccomp
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 resembling	obj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 tell	obj
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 mother	advmod
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mother	amod
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 resembling	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 difference	det
24	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		a long search twin brothers		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	resemble	gerund		each	exactly property	tree rules
3	not tell speech: assert	could	brothers's own mother	that		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent that=Recipient difference=Topic

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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