The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 121
And the two brothers embraced each other, and the elder asked forgiveness for his wicked blow; and they went back to the palace together, and were never parted any more.
Who acts: two brothers, elder, sinews, brother · What happens: embrace, ask, go back, not part, blow · To what, where: each, forgiveness
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 (two brothers, elder, sinews, brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 embraced | cc |
| 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 | 5 embraced | nsubj |
| 5 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 embraced | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elder | det |
| 11 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embraced | conj |
| 13 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 blow | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blow | amod |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 embraced | parataxis |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 parted | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 parted | cc |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 parted | aux:pass |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 parted | advmod |
| 31 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 went | conj |
| 32 | any | any | ADV | _ | 33 more | advmod |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 parted | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the two brothers | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the elder | forgiveness | for brother's wicked blow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent forgiveness=Recipient | |||
| 3 | go back | past | sinews = sinew | to the palace result; together property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 4 | not part | past · passive | sinews = sinew not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | blow | brother | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=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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