The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 13
‘Yes,’ replied his mother, ‘that is what you must do—go with your eleven brothers out into the wood, and let one of you always sit on the highest tree you can find, keeping watch on the tower of the castle.
Who acts: that, mother, you · What happens: reply, be, go, let, sit, find · To what, where: wood, one, highest tree, watch, tower · 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 (that, mother, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 what | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 do | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 brothers | nummod |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 wood | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 33 sit | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 sit | nsubj |
| 32 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 sit | advmod |
| 33 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 one | advcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 36 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 tree | amod |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 find | obl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 find | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 find | aux |
| 40 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sit | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 keeping | punct |
| 42 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 find | obj |
| 43 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 keeping | obj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 tower | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 tower | det |
| 46 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 keeping | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 castle | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 castle | det |
| 49 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 tower | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive · do-support | Benjamin's mother | the wood | with your eleven brothers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | let | infinitive | one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sit | present | you | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | find | can | you | the highest tree | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | keep | gerund | watch | the tower of the castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on tower=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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