The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 48
And the younger brother listened and pitied him, and gave him the houses that he asked for, and the elder went away happy.
Who acts: younger brother, brother, elder · What happens: listen, pity, give, ask, go away · To what, where: brother, houses
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother, elder), 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 | _ | 5 listened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pitied | cc |
| 7 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pitied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 houses | det |
| 14 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 asked | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 houses | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 asked | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 elder | det |
| 22 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gave | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 went | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the younger brother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pity | past | the younger brother not said here | brother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the younger brother not said here | the houses | brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient house=Theme | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | brother | the houses | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go away | past | the elder | away, happy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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