The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 32
And the Queen answered sadly: ‘Dear child, they belong to your twelve brothers.’
Who acts: Queen, shirts · What happens: answer, belong · To what, where: Dear child
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, shirts), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Queen | det |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
| 8 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 child | amod |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 belong | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 belong | nsubj |
| 12 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 child | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 brothers | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 brothers | nummod |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 belong | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Queen | sadly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | belong | present | shirts = shirt | Dear child not said here | to your twelve brothers | tree rules |
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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