The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 90
Meanwhile the sister left at home was counting the days when her two brothers should return to her.
Who acts: sister, two brothers · What happens: leave, count, return · To what, where: sister, home
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 (sister, two 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 counting | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sister | det |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 counting | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sister | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 counting | aux |
| 8 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 days | det |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 counting | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 return | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 brothers | nummod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 return | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 return | aux |
| 16 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 counting | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 return | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 counting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | the sister not said here | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | count | past · progressive | the sister | day | meanwhile property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | return | should | sister's two brothers | sister | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result |
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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