The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 10
Then she said: ‘My dearest Benjamin, your father has had these coffins made for you and your eleven brothers, because if I bring a girl into the world you are all to be killed and buried in them.’
Who acts: Queen, father, I · What happens: say, have, make, bring, kill, bury · To what, where: coffins, girl, you, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, father, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Benjamin | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Benjamin | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Benjamin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 Benjamin | amod |
| 8 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 had | aux |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 Benjamin | acl:relcl |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 coffins | det |
| 15 | coffins | coffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 coffins | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 made | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brothers | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 you | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bring | punct |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | nsubj |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 girl | det |
| 29 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 killed | obl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 killed | aux:pass |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 38 killed | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 killed | mark |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 killed | aux:pass |
| 38 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bring | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 buried | cc |
| 40 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 killed | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 buried | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Queen | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | your father | this coffins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | this coffins not said here | for you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | bring | present | I | a girl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument girl=Destination | ||||
| 5 | kill | present · passive | you | the world | all property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 6 | bury | participle | in coffins = coffin | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in they=Destination |
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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