The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 23
‘Here,’ they said, ‘let us take up our abode, and you, Benjamin, you are the youngest and weakest, you shall stay at home and keep house for us; we others will go out and fetch food.’
Who acts: hands, us, you, we · What happens: say, let, take up, be, stay, keep · To what, where: us, abode, home, house, food · 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 (hands, us, you, we), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 take | compound:prt |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 abode | nmod:poss |
| 14 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 youngest | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 youngest | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 youngest | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Benjamin | punct |
| 19 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 you | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Benjamin | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 youngest | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 youngest | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youngest | det |
| 24 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 said | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 weakest | cc |
| 26 | weakest | weak | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 youngest | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stay | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 stay | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 stay | aux |
| 30 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stay | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 keep | cc |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 stay | conj |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 us | case |
| 37 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 keep | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 go | nsubj |
| 40 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 go | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 go | aux |
| 42 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 43 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 go | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 fetch | cc |
| 45 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 go | conj |
| 46 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fetch | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 go | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | hands = hand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take up | infinitive | us not said here | our abode | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | stay | shall | you | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 7 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | house | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 8 | go out | future | we | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | fetch | present | we not said here | food | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
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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