The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 105
‘We are going to find bonny brides for ourselves, and one for our youngest brother at home,’ they replied.
Who acts: We, brothers · What happens: go, find, reply · To what, where: bonny brides
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brides | compound |
| 8 | brides | bride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ourselves | case |
| 10 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 find | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brother | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brother | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 brother | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 brother | amod |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brother | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 replied | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 23 replied | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 replied | nsubj |
| 23 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | We | for our youngest brother at home | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | We not said here | bonny brides | for ourselves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for ourselves=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | brothers = brother | vn respond-113 «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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