The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 20
The eleven brothers thought that they had come to very hospitable people.
Who acts: eleven brothers, brothers · What happens: think, come · 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 (eleven brothers, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 hospitable | advmod |
| 11 | hospitable | hospitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 come | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the eleven brothers | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | brothers = brother | to hospitable people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location |
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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