The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 74
After this another and another of my sons were seized by the same desire, and in the end all my seven sons went, and all were killed.
Who acts: same desire, seven sons · What happens: seize, go, kill · To what, where: another, end, all
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same desire, seven sons), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 another | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 another | nsubj |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 another | cc |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 another | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sons | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sons | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 another | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | aux:pass |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 desire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 desire | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 desire | amod |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sons | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sons | nummod |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 killed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 killed | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 killed | aux:pass |
| 29 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 went | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | the same desire | another | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | my seven sons | in the end | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location | ||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | all | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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