The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 63
In this manner he learned that his brothers had become great men, much respected in all the country round.
Who acts: man, brothers · What happens: learn, become, respect · To what, where: manner, great men, country · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learned | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 learned | nsubj |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 become | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 become | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 learned | ccomp |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 become | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 respected | punct |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 respected | advmod |
| 15 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 learned | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 country | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 respected | obl |
| 20 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 respected | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | man | this manner | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | man's brothers | great men | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | respect | participle | man not said here | all country | round property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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