The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 29

The brothers were very angry when they heard the story, and declared that, if any one were to die, it certainly should not be the robin.

Who acts: brothers, one, story · What happens: be, hear, declare, die, not be · To what, where: story, that, robin

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, one, story), 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	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 angry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 declared	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 declared	cc
13	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 declared	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 die	mark
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 die	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 die	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 die	mark
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 declared	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 robin	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 robin	nsubj
24	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	29 robin	advmod
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 robin	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 robin	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 robin	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 robin	det
29	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 die	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the brothers		angry property	tree rules
2	hear	past	brothers = brother	the story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	declare speech: other	past		that		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Attribute
4	die a condition, not said to happen	past	any one			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not is a	should	story	the robin	certainly property	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.

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