The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 1

Brother took sister by the hand and said: ‘Look here; we haven’t had one single happy hour since our mother died.

Who acts: Brother, we, mother · What happens: take, say, look, not have, die · To what, where: sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother, we, mother), 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	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 Look	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Look	punct
11	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 Look	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 had	aux
16	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 had	advmod
17	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	parataxis
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 hour	nummod
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hour	amod
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hour	amod
21	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
22	since	since	SCONJ	_	25 died	mark
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 died	nsubj
25	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Brother	sister			by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sister=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	Brother not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	infinitive			here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	not have	present · perfect	we			hour		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	die	past	our mother					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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