The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 45
When they heard this the brothers set to work again to earn some more money, and when they had got enough they set about building a church, which should be as large and beautiful as the palace itself.
Who acts: Populars, brothers, church · What happens: hear, set, work, earn, get, build · To what, where: this, more money, church · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Populars, brothers, church), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 work | mark |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 set | xcomp |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 work | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 earn | mark |
| 12 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 work | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 money | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 money | amod |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 earn | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 got | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 got | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 got | aux |
| 21 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 set | advcl |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 got | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 set | nsubj |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 25 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 26 building | mark |
| 26 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 set | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 church | det |
| 28 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 building | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 large | punct |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 large | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 large | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 large | cop |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 large | advmod |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 church | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 beautiful | cc |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 large | conj |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 large | obl |
| 40 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 39 palace | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Populars = popular | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | present | the brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | again | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | earn | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | some more money | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | past · perfect | brothers = brother | enough property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | set | present | brothers = brother | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | build | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | a church | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset church=Product | ||||
| 8 | is | should | a church | as the palace church; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | be | a church not said here | 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 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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