The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 13

So a puppy was found, exactly like the other; they might have been twins, and perhaps they were.

Who acts: orders · What happens: find, be · To what, where: puppy, twins

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 puppy	det
3	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	aux:pass
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 other	punct
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 other	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 other	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 found	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 twins	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 twins	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 twins	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 twins	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 twins	cop
16	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 were	cc
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	21 were	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 were	nsubj
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 found	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		a puppy		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is a	might · perfect	orders = order	twins		tree rules
3	be	past	orders = order		perhaps property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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