The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 35
Things looked very black again for the brothers, for they were sure there was no escape for them.
Who acts: Things, brothers, escape · What happens: look, be
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, brothers, escape), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 black | advmod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 brothers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brothers | det |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sure | case |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 escape | det |
| 17 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 escape | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Things | again | for the brothers; black property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | brothers = brother | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no escape for brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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