The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 108
The two brothers remained together, the elder tightly grasping the ointment which had brought him back to life.
What happens: remain, grasp, bring back · To what, where: two brothers, ointment
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brothers | acl |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 remained | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 elder | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elder | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | parataxis |
| 9 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 10 grasping | advmod |
| 10 | grasping | grasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 elder | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ointment | det |
| 12 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grasping | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ointment | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 brought | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the two brothers not said here | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grasp | gerund | the ointment | tightly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ointment=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring back | past · perfect · passive | the ointment | to life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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