The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 91
They quenched the flames and put out the fire, and, unbinding their dear sister from the stake, they kissed and hugged her again and again.
Who acts: ravens · What happens: quench, put out, unbind, kiss, hug · To what, where: flames, fire, dear sister, stake, sister
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 (ravens), 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 quenched | nsubj |
| 2 | quenched | quench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flames | det |
| 4 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 quenched | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 quenched | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unbinding | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 unbinding | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unbinding | punct |
| 13 | unbinding | unbind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 quenched | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 15 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sister | amod |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unbinding | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 stake | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stake | det |
| 19 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unbinding | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kissed | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kissed | nsubj |
| 22 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 quenched | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hugged | cc |
| 24 | hugged | hug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kissed | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hugged | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 hugged | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 again | cc |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 again | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quench | past | ravens = raven | the flames | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus flame=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | put out | participle | ravens = raven not said here | the fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | unbind | gerund | ravens = raven not said here | ravens's dear sister | the stake | tree rules | |||
| 4 | kiss | past | ravens = raven | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hug | past | ravens = raven not said here | sister | again | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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