The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 104
He was brought up and educated in his father’s house until he was full grown, and still his brothers had never seen or heard anything about the witch to whom they had promised him before he was born.
What happens: bring up, educate, grow, not see, hear, promise · To what, where: brother, house, brothers, anything, princes
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux:pass |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 educated | cc |
| 6 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brought | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 educated | obl |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 grown | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grown | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 grown | aux:pass |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grown | amod |
| 16 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 educated | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 seen | cc |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 seen | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 seen | advmod |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 heard | cc |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 seen | conj |
| 27 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 heard | obj |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 30 witch | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 witch | det |
| 30 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 anything | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 whom | case |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 witch | nmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 promised | aux |
| 35 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 whom | acl:relcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 promised | iobj |
| 37 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 40 born | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 born | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 born | aux:pass |
| 40 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 promised | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past · passive | brother | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | educate speech: other | participle | brother's father's house | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow | past · passive | brother | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect · passive | brother's brothers | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hear | participle | anything | about the witch | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | princes = prince | brother | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bear | past · passive | brother | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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