The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 12
The next day the second son went, and did just the same.
Who acts: second son · What happens: go, do
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second son), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 same | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 did | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the second son | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the second son not said here | same property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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