The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 106
The boy and the foal grew up together and loved each other like brothers.
Who acts: boy · What happens: grow up, love · To what, where: each
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 foal | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foal | det |
| 5 | foal | foal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | conj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grew | compound:prt |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 grew | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 loved | cc |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grew | conj |
| 11 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 loved | obj |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 each | fixed |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 loved | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the boy and the foal | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | past | the boy and the foal not said here | each | like brothers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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