The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 37
‘These coffins,’ she said, ‘were intended for your brothers, but they stole secretly away before you were born.’
Who acts: coffins · What happens: say, intend, steal, bear · To what, where: you · 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 (coffins), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 coffins | det |
| 3 | coffins | coffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coffins | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 coffins | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 intended | expl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 intended | aux:pass |
| 11 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 intended | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stole | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 stole | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stole | nsubj |
| 18 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 stole | advmod |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 born | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 born | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 born | aux:pass |
| 24 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stole | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this coffins | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | intend | past · passive | for your brothers | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 3 | steal | past | coffins = coffin | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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