The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 22
When they came to the second brook, sister heard it repeating too:
Who acts: children, sister, brook · What happens: come, hear, repeat · To what, where: second brook, brook
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 (children, sister, brook), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brook | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brook | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 brook | amod |
| 7 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | obj |
| 12 | repeating | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 heard | xcomp |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 repeating | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | children = child | the second brook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | sister | brook | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | repeat | gerund | brook not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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