The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 85
The brother now set sail with his two sisters, for the stepmother pretended that the ugly one wanted to see the other a bit on her way.
Who acts: brother, ugly one · What happens: set, pretend, want, see · To what, where: sail, other, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, ugly one), 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 | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pretended | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 brother | acl |
| 5 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sisters | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sisters | nummod |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sail | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pretended | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 stepmother | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stepmother | det |
| 13 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pretended | obl |
| 14 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 wanted | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wanted | nsubj |
| 19 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pretended | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wanted | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 see | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bit | det |
| 25 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 way | nmod:poss |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the brother not said here | sail | now | with brother's two sisters | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sail=Patient with sister=Instrument | ||
| 2 | pretend | past | the brother | for the stepmother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | the ugly one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the ugly one not said here | the other | girl's way | a bit obl:unmarked | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus |
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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