The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 31
Now when the rich brother saw all that there was at the banquet and in the house, he was both vexed and angry, for he grudged everything his brother had.
Who acts: rich brother, Man, brother · What happens: see, be, vex, grudge, have · To what, where: banquet, Man, house, everything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich brother, Man, brother), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 banquet | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 banquet | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 banquet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 banquet | det |
| 13 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 vexed | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vexed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 vexed | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 vexed | aux:pass |
| 21 | both | both | ADV | _ | 22 vexed | advmod |
| 22 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 saw | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 angry | cc |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vexed | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grudged | punct |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 grudged | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 grudged | nsubj |
| 28 | grudged | grudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 grudged | obj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 everything | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the rich brother | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all banquet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | vex | past · passive | Man | the house | both property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | grudge | past | Man | everything | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Man's brother | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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