The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 67
But almost before he was out of the house another boy was born, and he too looked about him, and said, ‘Ah, my dear mother! give me some of my brothers’ old clothes, and food for some days, and then I will go out into the world and find my twin brother, for you have children enough.’
Who acts: Heaven, dear mother, I, you · What happens: be, bear, look, say, give, go out · To what, where: house, old clothes, me, world, twin brother, children · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, dear mother, I, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 born | cc |
| 2 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 house | advmod |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 house | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 house | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | aux:pass |
| 13 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 go | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 looked | advmod |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 born | parataxis |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 looked | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mother | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 mother | punct |
| 26 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 30 mother | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ah | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mother | amod |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | nsubj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 mother | punct |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 give | iobj |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 brothers | det |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 brothers | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 37 brothers | case |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 clothes | amod |
| 40 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 give | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 food | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 food | cc |
| 43 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 born | obl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 days | case |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 days | det |
| 46 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 food | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 go | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 go | cc |
| 49 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 52 go | advmod |
| 50 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 go | nsubj |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 go | aux |
| 52 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 53 | out | out | ADV | _ | 52 go | advmod |
| 54 | into | into | ADP | _ | 56 world | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 world | det |
| 56 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 go | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 find | cc |
| 58 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 go | conj |
| 59 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 brother | nmod:poss |
| 60 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 brother | compound |
| 61 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 find | obj |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 have | punct |
| 63 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 65 have | mark |
| 64 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 65 have | nsubj |
| 65 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 find | advcl |
| 66 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 65 have | obj |
| 67 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 65 have | advmod |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 go | punct |
| 69 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 52 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Heaven | the house | almost property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | the house | food for some days obl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | past | Heaven | about boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Heaven not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | my dear mother | my brothers's old clothes | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clothes=Theme | |||
| 6 | go out | future | I | the world | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 7 | find | infinitive | I not said here | my twin brother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 8 | have | present | you | children | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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