The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 5
The next morning his brothers went home, and bought a beautiful house, where they lived with their mother like great lords.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: go, buy, live · To what, where: beautiful house
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bought | cc |
| 10 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lived | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bought | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 lords | case |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lords | amod |
| 23 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lived | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jack's brothers | morning | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | past | Jack's brothers not said here | a beautiful house | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | brothers = brother | with brothers's mother; like great lords | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location |
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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