The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 63
The next year sons were born to Oireal and Iarlaid; and the son of Oireal was big and strong, but the son of Iarlaid was little and weak, and each had six foster brothers who went everywhere with the princes.
Who acts: son, six foster brothers · What happens: bear, be, have, go · To what, where: next year sons, Oireal, six foster brothers
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, six foster brothers), 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 | 4 sons | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sons | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sons | compound |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Oireal | case |
| 8 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 born | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Iarlaid | cc |
| 10 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Oireal | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 big | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 big | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 big | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Oireal | case |
| 16 | Oireal | Oireal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 big | cop |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 born | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 strong | cc |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 big | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 little | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 little | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 son | det |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 little | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Iarlaid | case |
| 26 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 son | nmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 little | cop |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 big | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 weak | cc |
| 30 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 big | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 had | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 had | cc |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 had | advmod |
| 34 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | conj |
| 35 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 brothers | nummod |
| 36 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 brothers | compound |
| 37 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 had | obj |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 40 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 39 went | advmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 princes | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 princes | det |
| 43 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 went | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the next year sons | Oireal and Iarlaid | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the son of Oireal | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the son of Oireal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | the son of Iarlaid | little property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the son of Oireal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | have | past | six foster brothers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||||
| 7 | go | past | six foster brothers | with the princes; everywhere property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with prince=Beneficiary |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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