The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 100
Esben was soon back at the palace with the boar, and his brothers scarcely knew which leg to stand on, so rejoiced were they that they were safe again.
Who acts: Esben, brothers · What happens: be, know, stand on, rejoice · To what, where: palace, leg · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, brothers), 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 | Esben | Esben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | cop |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 back | advmod |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 palace | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 boar | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boar | det |
| 10 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 palace | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knew | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 16 knew | advmod |
| 16 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 palace | conj |
| 17 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 18 leg | det |
| 18 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knew | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stand | mark |
| 20 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 stand | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rejoiced | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 rejoiced | advmod |
| 24 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 safe | advcl |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 safe | cop |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 safe | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 safe | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 safe | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 safe | cop |
| 30 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 palace | conj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 safe | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Esben | the palace | with the boar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | Sir's brothers | which leg | scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand on | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rejoice | participle | Esben not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Esben | again | safe 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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