The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 61

They arranged that she should stay at home with Benjamin and help him in the house work, while the rest of the brothers went out into the wood and shot hares and roe-deer, birds and wood-pigeons.

Who acts: robes, sister, rest · What happens: arrange, stay, help, go out · To what, where: home, Benjamin, house work, wood

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 (robes, sister, rest), 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	2 arranged	nsubj
2	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 stay	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stay	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arranged	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stay	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 Benjamin	case
10	Benjamin	Benjamin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 home	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 help	cc
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stay	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 help	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 work	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 work	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 work	compound
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 help	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 went	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rest	det
21	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 brothers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brothers	det
24	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rest	nmod
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arranged	conj
26	out	out	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 wood	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wood	det
29	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 went	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hares	cc
31	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hares	compound
32	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wood	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 deer	cc
34	roe	roe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 deer	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 roe	punct
36	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hares	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 birds	punct
38	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hares	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pigeons	cc
40	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pigeons	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 wood	punct
42	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hares	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrange	past	robes = robe				tree rules
2	stay	should	sister		home with Benjamin		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
3	help	infinitive	sister not said here	Benjamin	the house work		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
4	go out	past	the rest of the brothers		the wood and shot hares and roe deer and birds and wood pigeons	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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