Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Turnip, sentence 1

There were two brothers who were both soldiers; the one was rich and the other poor.

Who acts: two brothers, one · What happens: be · To what, where: soldiers

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Turnip. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 soldiers	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 soldiers	cop
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 soldiers	det
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brothers	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 rich	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rich	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rich	cop
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 were	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 poor	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poor	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 poor	amod
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rich	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two brothers		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	two brothers	both soldiers			tree rules
3	is	past	the one			rich property	tree rules
4	be		the one not said here				tree rules

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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