The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 68
But he had not gone very far when, at a turn of the road, he met with two brothers, who were quarrelling over a piece of cloth.
Who acts: castle, two brothers · What happens: not go, meet, quarrell · To what, where: turn, piece
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, two 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 gone | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 gone | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 far | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 turn | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 turn | det |
| 12 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 met | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 met | nsubj |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 brothers | nummod |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 met | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 quarrelling | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 quarrelling | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 quarrelling | aux |
| 25 | quarrelling | quarrell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 brothers | acl |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 piece | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 piece | det |
| 28 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quarrelling | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cloth | case |
| 30 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 piece | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | castle | a turn of the road | far property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at turn=Location | |||
| 2 | meet | past | castle | with two brothers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with brother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | quarrell | past · progressive | two brothers | a piece of cloth | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/24/68/