The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 98
They wrangled on for a time, till, as both were tired, they made up the matter and fell asleep again.
Who acts: horsemen, both · What happens: wrangle on, be, make up, fall · To what, where: matter
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horsemen, both), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrangled | nsubj |
| 2 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 wrangled | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrangled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 till | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADV | _ | 2 wrangled | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 tired | mark |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wrangled | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrangled | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 made | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | conj |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrangle on | past | horsemen = horseman | time | till property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | both | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | horsemen = horseman | the matter | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme matter=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | horsemen = horseman not said here | again | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «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 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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