Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 79
They had been unable to decide whether they would keep together and have the things in common, or whether they would separate.
Who acts: horses · What happens: be, decide, keep together, have, separate · To what, where: things, common · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unable | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 unable | cop |
| 4 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 decide | mark |
| 6 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unable | xcomp |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decide | ccomp |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 keep | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unable | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 common | case |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 have | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 separate | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 separate | cc |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 separate | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 separate | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 separate | aux |
| 23 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unable | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | horses = horse | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep together | would | horses = horse | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | present | horses = horse not said here | the things | common | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | |||
| 5 | separate | would | horses = horse | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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