Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 7
All their faces brightened as they looked at the casket, and they thought to themselves, "If we keep him we shall have the money."
Who acts: faces, we · What happens: brighten, look, think, keep, have · To what, where: brothers, man, money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faces, we), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 faces | det:predet |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faces | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | brightened | brighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 looked | advcl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 casket | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 casket | det |
| 10 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 themselves | case |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 thought | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 19 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 have | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 have | aux |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thought | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 money | det |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brighten | participle | brothers's faces not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | look | past | brothers's faces | at the casket | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at casket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | faces = face | brothers = brother | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | keep a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | we | the money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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