The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 18
On the twelfth day, when the turn came to Benjamin, he noticed a flag waving in the air, but alas! it was not white, but blood red, the sign which told them they must all die.
Who acts: turn, flag, alas, blood, sign · What happens: come, notice, wave, not be, sign, tell · To what, where: Benjamin, flag, alas · 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 (turn, flag, alas, blood), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 turn | det |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 noticed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Benjamin | case |
| 11 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flag | det |
| 16 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obj |
| 17 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 flag | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waving | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 white | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 white | cc |
| 23 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 white | nsubj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 alas | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 white | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 white | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 white | advmod |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 noticed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sign | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 sign | cc |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sign | nsubj |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 blood | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sign | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sign | det |
| 35 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | parataxis |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 told | nsubj |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sign | acl:relcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 told | iobj |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 die | nsubj |
| 40 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 die | aux |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 42 die | advmod |
| 42 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 told | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the turn | Benjamin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benjamin=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | turn | a flag | day | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flag=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | a flag not said here | in the air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | alas | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sign | blood | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | the sign | alas = ala | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | die | must | alas = ala | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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