The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 43
His brothers lowered him accordingly, and when he had reached the other world, underneath the earth, he went on his way.
Who acts: brothers, Norka · What happens: lower, reach, go · To what, where: Norka, other world, way
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 (brothers, Norka), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lowered | nsubj |
| 3 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lowered | obj |
| 5 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 lowered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reached | cc |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reached | aux |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lowered | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 earth | punct |
| 16 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 18 earth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earth | det |
| 18 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lowered | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 way | nmod:poss |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past | Norka's brothers | Norka | accordingly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect | Norka | the other world | underneath the earth | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | Norka | Norka's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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