The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 13
But his father answered: ‘Both your brothers have injured themselves.
Who acts: father · What happens: answer, injure · To what, where: brothers
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 injured | punct |
| 7 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 brothers | det |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 injured | aux |
| 11 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 injured | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Father's father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | injure | present · perfect · passive | your brothers | tree rules |
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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