The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 65
Armed with the precious whistle, the three brothers returned home full of joy, and as they went the youngest said to the others, ‘I have such a good idea!
Who acts: Armed three brothers, brothers, I · What happens: return, go, say, have · To what, where: youngest, others, good idea · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Armed three brothers, brothers, I), 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 | Armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brothers | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 whistle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whistle | det |
| 4 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whistle | amod |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Armed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Armed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brothers | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 returned | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youngest | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 went | obl |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 youngest | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 others | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 others | det |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 others | acl:relcl |
| 30 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 idea | det:predet |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 idea | det |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 idea | amod |
| 33 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | obj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the Armed three brothers | full, home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | brothers = brother | the youngest | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | participle | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | such good idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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 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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