The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 45
Then she showed him the twelve shirts which she had taken with her, and Benjamin saw that it must be his sister, and said:
Who acts: sky, Benjamin, earth · What happens: show, take, see, be, say · To what, where: twelve shirts, youth, sister · 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 (sky, Benjamin, earth), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 showed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shirts | det |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 shirts | nummod |
| 7 | shirts | shirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 showed | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shirts | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 sister | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sister | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sister | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sister | cop |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sister | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | sky | the twelve shirts | youth | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shirt=Topic | ||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the twelve shirts | with sky | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Benjamin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | earth | Benjamin's sister | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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