The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 111
When the elder brother heard this a great rage filled his heart, and, without saying one word, he drew his sword and slew his brother, and his body rolled in the dust.
Who acts: elder brother, great rage, brother, body · What happens: hear, fill, say, draw, slay, roll · To what, where: this, heart, one word, sword, brother, dust · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (elder brother, great rage, brother, body), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drew | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rage | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rage | amod |
| 9 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | nsubj |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saying | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 16 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 17 saying | mark |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 word | nummod |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 drew | nsubj |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sword | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drew | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 slew | cc |
| 26 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drew | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 slew | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rolled | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rolled | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 body | nmod:poss |
| 32 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rolled | nsubj |
| 33 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drew | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 dust | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dust | det |
| 36 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rolled | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the elder brother | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | a great rage | rage's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the elder brother not said here | one word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | brother | rage's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 5 | slay | past | brother not said here | rage's brother | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 6 | roll | past | rage's body | the dust | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dust=Trajectory |
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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