The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 44
They kept together for some time, till they reached a place where the path they had been following split into two, and one of the brothers called his dog and went to the left, while the others took the trail to the right.
Who acts: boys, one, others · What happens: keep together, reach, split, call, go, take · To what, where: place, path, two, dog, left, trail · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, one, others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kept | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 kept | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 8 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 split | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 path | det |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 split | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 split | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 split | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 split | aux:pass |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 split | aux:pass |
| 20 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 two | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 split | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 called | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 called | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 brothers | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 brothers | det |
| 28 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 one | nmod |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kept | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dog | nmod:poss |
| 31 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 called | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 left | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 left | det |
| 36 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 38 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 41 took | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 others | det |
| 40 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 took | nsubj |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 went | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 trail | det |
| 43 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 right | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 right | det |
| 46 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep together | past | boys = boy | time | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | reach | past | boys = boy | a place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | split | past · perfect · passive | the path | into two result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into two=Result | ||||
| 4 | call | past | one of the brothers | brother's dog | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | one of the brothers not said here | the left | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to left=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | take | past | the others | the trail | the right | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trail=Theme to right=Destination |
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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