Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 13
The younger brother was quieter, and buried himself entirely in his books.
Who acts: younger brother · What happens: be, bury · To what, where: truth, books
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quieter | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quieter | cop |
| 5 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 buried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 buried | cc |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quieter | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 buried | obj |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 8 buried | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 books | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 books | nmod:poss |
| 13 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quieter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the younger brother | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | the younger brother not said here | truth | truth's books | entirely property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in book=Destination |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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