The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 59
The brothers thanked him, and departed, and went straight to the palace, where they found the young man making ready to set out for the mountain where the treasures he longed for lay hid.
Who acts: brothers, young man, treasures · What happens: thank, depart, go, find, make, set out · To what, where: man, palace, young man
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 (brothers, young man, treasures), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 departed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 departed | cc |
| 7 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 palace | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 found | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 22 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 man | acl |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 making | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 set | mark |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ready | xcomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 set | compound:prt |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 mountain | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mountain | det |
| 29 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 longed | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 treasures | det |
| 32 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 longed | nsubj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 longed | nsubj |
| 34 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 35 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 37 hid | mark |
| 36 | lay | lay | SYM | _ | 37 hid | obl |
| 37 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 longed | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the brothers | man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the brothers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | find | past | brothers = brother | the young man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the young man not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | set out | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | for the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | long | past | the treasures | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 8 | hide | past | the treasures not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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