The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 75
His two elder brothers came and knelt before him and confessed what they had done, and said that he alone should inherit the kingdom, and they would always be his faithful subjects.
Who acts: two elder brothers, brothers, prince · What happens: come, kneel, confess, do, say, inherit · To what, where: kingdom, faithful subjects · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers, brothers, prince), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 knelt | cc |
| 7 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knelt | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 confessed | cc |
| 11 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knelt | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 done | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 confessed | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 inherit | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 inherit | nsubj |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 inherit | advmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 inherit | aux |
| 23 | inherit | inherit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 kingdom | det |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inherit | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 subjects | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 subjects | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 subjects | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 subjects | aux |
| 30 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 34 subjects | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 subjects | cop |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 33 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 subjects | amod |
| 34 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | prince's two elder brothers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kneel | past | prince's two elder brothers not said here | before prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 3 | confess | past | prince's two elder brothers not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | brothers = brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | inherit | should | prince | the kingdom | alone property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a | would | brothers = brother | prince's faithful subjects | always property | tree rules |
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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