The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 139
Then the two brothers put on their armour, buckled their swords, and pocketed their purees; and, after taking a tender farewell of each other, they mounted their horses and went their various ways.
Who acts: two brothers, danger · What happens: put, buckle, pocket, take, mount, go · To what, where: two brothers, armour, swords, purees, tender farewell, horses
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, danger), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 buckled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buckled | nsubj |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 brothers | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 armour | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 armour | nmod:poss |
| 8 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brothers | punct |
| 10 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 swords | nmod:poss |
| 12 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 buckled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pocketed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pocketed | cc |
| 15 | pocketed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 buckled | conj | |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 purees | nmod:poss |
| 17 | purees | puree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pocketed | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 mounted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 mounted | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 taking | mark |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 mounted | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 farewell | det |
| 24 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 farewell | compound |
| 25 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taking | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 each | case |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 farewell | nmod |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 each | fixed |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taking | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 mounted | nsubj |
| 31 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 buckled | conj |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 horses | nmod:poss |
| 33 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 mounted | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 went | cc |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mounted | conj |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 ways | nmod:poss |
| 37 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ways | amod |
| 38 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 went | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 buckled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | the two brothers not said here | danger's armour | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armour=Destination | ||||
| 2 | buckle | past | the two brothers | danger's swords | then | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | |||
| 3 | past | the two brothers not said here | danger's purees | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent puree=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | gerund | danger not said here | a tender farewell of each | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mount | past | danger | danger's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | past | danger not said here | danger's various ways | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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