The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 20

The other two brothers heard that Ciccu had become quite an important person, and they grew envious, and thought how they could put him to shame.

Who acts: other two brothers, Ciccu, brothers · What happens: hear, become, grow, think, put, shame · To what, where: important person, Ciccu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other two brothers, Ciccu, 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	4 brothers	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brothers	amod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 brothers	nummod
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 become	mark
7	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 become	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 heard	ccomp
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 person	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
12	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 person	amod
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 become	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 grew	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
18	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grew	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 thought	cc
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 put	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 put	aux
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 shame	mark
28	shame	shame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 put	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the other two brothers				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	become	past · perfect	Ciccu	a important person			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	brothers = brother			envious property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	the other two brothers not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	put	could	brothers = brother		Ciccu		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
6	shame	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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