The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 39

Then they met and confessed to each other their disasters, and resolved to take the animal as fast as possible back to Toueno-Boueno, who should get a sound thrashing.

Who acts: brothers, Toueno · What happens: meet, confess, resolve, take, get · To what, where: disasters, each, animal, Toueno, sound thrashing

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, Toueno), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 met	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 confessed	cc
5	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 confessed	obl
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 each	fixed
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 disasters	nmod:poss
10	disasters	disaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 confessed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 resolved	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 resolved	cc
13	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 resolved	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 animal	det
17	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 fast	advmod
19	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 take	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 back	amod
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Toueno	case
24	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Boueno	punct
26	Boueno	Boueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Toueno	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 get	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 get	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 get	aux
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Toueno	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thrashing	det
32	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thrashing	compound
33	thrashing	thrashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	brothers = brother			then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	confess	past	brothers = brother not said here	brothers's disasters	each			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent disaster=Topic to each=Recipient
3	resolve	past	brothers = brother not said here					tree rules
4	take	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	the animal	Toueno and Boueno		as possible back; fast property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent animal=Theme to toueno=Destination
5	get	should	Toueno and Boueno	a sound thrashing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thrashing=Stimulus

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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