The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 107
And the brothers were contented, and returned home, saying one to the other, ‘We will each of us send a basket of figs to the king.
What happens: content, return, say, send · To what, where: brothers, one, other, basket, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 contented | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 contented | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contented | aux:pass |
| 5 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 contented | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 returned | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 returned | advcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 saying | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 other | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 send | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 send | punct |
| 18 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 will | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 send | aux |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 will | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 us | case |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 each | nmod |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saying | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 basket | det |
| 25 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 send | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 figs | case |
| 27 | figs | fig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 basket | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 king | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 send | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | past · passive | the brothers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | return | past | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | one | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to other=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | send | future | a basket of figs | the king | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to king=Destination |
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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