The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 25

They always brought their spoils home to Benjamin, who soon learnt to make them into dainty dishes.

Who acts: hands, Benjamin · What happens: bring, spoil, learn, make · To what, where: Benjamin, hands, dainty dishes

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, Benjamin), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brought	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 brought	advmod
3	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 spoils	nmod:poss
5	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brought	ccomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 spoils	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Benjamin	case
8	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spoils	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learnt	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 learnt	nsubj
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 learnt	advmod
12	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Benjamin	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 make	mark
14	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learnt	xcomp
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 make	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 dishes	case
17	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dishes	compound
18	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 make	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	hands = hand				always property	tree rules
2	spoil	present	hands = hand not said here		Benjamin		home property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	learn	past	Benjamin				soon property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	to-infinitive	Benjamin not said here	hands = hand		dainty dishes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into dish=Product

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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