Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 154
The eldest brother took the eldest sister, and the youngest the youngest, till they were all suited.
Who acts: eldest brother · What happens: take, suit · To what, where: eldest sister, lots
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest 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 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sister | det |
| 6 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 youngest | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 youngest | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngest | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 took | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youngest | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 youngest | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 suited | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 suited | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 suited | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 suited | aux:pass |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 suited | advmod |
| 19 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the eldest brother | the eldest sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination | ||||
| 2 | suit | past · passive | lots = lot | all property | 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: «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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