The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 89
And the snake died, and the two brothers skinned it.
Who acts: snake, two brothers · What happens: die, skin · To what, where: strip
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 died | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skinned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 skinned | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 skinned | nsubj |
| 10 | skinned | skin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skinned | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | the snake | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | skin | past | the two brothers | strip | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
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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