The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 32

The third was: Whether men or brutes were made first?

What happens: make · To what, where: third

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: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
5	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	10 made	mark
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	nsubj:pass
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 brutes	cc
8	brutes	brute	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 men	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 made	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the third				first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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