The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 47
So they wept for joy, and kissed and hugged each other again and again.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: weep, kiss, hug · To what, where: each
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 (brothers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 wept | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wept | nsubj |
| 3 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 joy | case |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kissed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | cc |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wept | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hugged | cc |
| 10 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kissed | conj |
| 11 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 hugged | obj |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 each | fixed |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 hugged | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 again | cc |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 again | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | brothers = brother | for joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hug | past | each | again | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-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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