The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 54
The two elder boys and their dogs pursued him, and soon the second son, who was also a good shot, killed him instantly with an arrow.
Who acts: two elder boys, second son · What happens: pursue, be, kill · To what, where: dog, good shot
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 (two elder boys, second son), 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 boys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 boys | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boys | amod |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pursued | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dogs | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pursued | nsubj |
| 8 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pursued | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 son | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 son | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 son | amod |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pursued | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shot | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 shot | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shot | cop |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 shot | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 shot | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shot | amod |
| 22 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 killed | punct |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pursued | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | obj |
| 26 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 24 killed | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 arrow | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 arrow | det |
| 29 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the two elder boys | dog | the second son and a good shot obl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the second son and a good shot | a good shot | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | the two elder boys not said here | dog | with a arrow; instantly property | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
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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