The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 38
Three brothers and one sister lived together in a small cottage, and they loved one another dearly.
Who acts: Three brothers, brothers · What happens: live together, love · To what, where: small cottage, one
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three brothers, 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sister | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sister | nummod |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | conj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 lived | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cottage | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cottage | amod |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 loved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 loved | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 loved | obj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | fixed |
| 18 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 15 loved | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | past | Three brothers and one sister | a small cottage | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location | |||
| 2 | love | past | brothers = brother | one | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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