The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 2
Ane of them had twa sons, and the other had ane; and by-and-by it was time for the wife that had twa sons to send them away to seeke their fortune.
Who acts: Ane, other, wife, twa sons · What happens: have, be, send away, seeke · To what, where: twa sons, ane, widows, fortune
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ane, other, wife, twa sons), 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 | Ane | ane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Ane | nmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | compound |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 12 | ane | ane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 time | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 time | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 time | cc |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 time | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 time | cop |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 time | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 wife | acl:relcl |
| 28 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sons | compound |
| 29 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 send | mark |
| 31 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 had | xcomp |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 send | obj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 send | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 seeke | mark |
| 35 | seeke | seeke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 send | advcl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 seeke | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ane of widows | twa sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the other | ane | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ane=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ane | by time | for the wife | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | the wife | twa sons | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send away | to-infinitive | twa sons not said here | widows = widow | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 6 | seeke | to-infinitive | twa sons not said here | widows's fortune | tree rules |
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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