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The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 81

They were already arranging between themselves to share the kingdom equally, when the youngest stepped forward, drawing from his pocket the acorn the White Cat had given him.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: arrange, share, step forward, draw, give · To what, where: kingdom, youngest, acorn, king

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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

nsubjauxadvmodcaseoblmarkxcompdetobjadvmodpunctadvmoddetnsubj:passparataxisadvmodpunctcsubj:passcasenmod:possobldetnsubj:passdetcompoundnsubjauxconjiobjpunctrootTheyPRONwereAUXalreadyADVarrangingVERBbetweenADPthemselvesPRONtoPARTshareVERBtheDETkingdomNOUNequallyADV,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETyoungestADJsteppedVERBforwardADV,PUNCTdrawingVERBfromADPhisPRONpocketNOUNtheDETacornNOUNtheDETWhitePROPNCatPROPNhadAUXgivenVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs4 arrangingnsubj
2werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 arrangingaux
3alreadyalreadyADV_4 arrangingadvmod
4arrangingarrangeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
5betweenbetweenADP_6 themselvescase
6themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes4 arrangingobl
7totoPART_8 sharemark
8shareshareVERBVerbForm=Inf4 arrangingxcomp
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 kingdomdet
10kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing8 shareobj
11equallyequallyADV_8 shareadvmod
12,,PUNCT_16 steppedpunct
13whenwhenADVPronType=Int16 steppedadvmod
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 youngestdet
15youngestyoungADJDegree=Sup16 steppednsubj:pass
16steppedstepVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 arrangingparataxis
17forwardforwardADV_16 steppedadvmod
18,,PUNCT_19 drawingpunct
19drawingdrawVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 givencsubj:pass
20fromfromADP_22 pocketcase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 pocketnmod:poss
22pocketpocketNOUNNumber=Sing19 drawingobl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 acorndet
24acornacornNOUNNumber=Sing29 givennsubj:pass
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 Catdet
26WhiteWhitePROPNNumber=Sing27 Catcompound
27CatCatPROPNNumber=Sing29 givennsubj
28hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 givenaux
29givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 steppedconj
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 giveniobj
31..PUNCT_4 arrangingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrangepast · progressivebrothers = brotherbetween brothers = brothertree rules
2shareto-infinitivebrothers = brother not said herethe kingdomequally propertytree rules
3step forwardparticiple · passivethe youngestforward propertyvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4drawgerundfrom king's pocketvn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pocket=Co-Patient
5givepast · perfect · passivethe acornkingvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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 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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