The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 2
Each brother chose one, and the youngest they kept for their brother at home.
Who acts: brother, youngest · What happens: choose, keep · To what, where: one, home
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 (brother, youngest), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 chose | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youngest | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chose | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | each brother | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the youngest | home | for sisters's brother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |
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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