The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 38

By the next morning they also were all dead, but the second brother likewise held his peace, and allowed the sheep which belonged to the youngest to share the fate of the other two.

Who acts: brothers, second brother, sheep, ram · What happens: be, hold, allow, belong, share, pacify · To what, where: peace, sheep, youngest, fate

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, second brother, sheep, ram), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dead	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
6	also	also	ADV	_	9 dead	advmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 dead	advmod
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 held	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 held	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brother	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 brother	amod
14	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 held	nsubj
15	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	16 held	advmod
16	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 peace	nmod:poss
18	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 held	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 allowed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 allowed	cc
21	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 held	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sheep	det
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 allowed	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 belonged	nsubj
25	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sheep	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 youngest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 youngest	det
28	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 belonged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 share	mark
30	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 youngest	acl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fate	det
32	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 share	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 two	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 two	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 two	amod
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 fate	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	brothers = brother			morning	all, dead property	tree rules
2	hold	past	the second brother	ram's peace			likewise property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme
3	allow	past	the second brother not said here		the sheep			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary
4	belong	past	the sheep	the youngest				tree rules
5	share	to-infinitive		the fate of the other two				tree rules
6	pacify		ram					nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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