The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 56
His brothers noticed this, and envy and jealousy were added to their fear, so much so that they determined once more to destroy him.
Who acts: brothers, envy · What happens: notice, add, determine, destroy, fear · To what, where: this, envy, more, Ferko
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, envy), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 noticed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 added | cc |
| 7 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jealousy | cc |
| 9 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 envy | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 added | aux:pass |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 noticed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 fear | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 determined | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 determined | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 determined | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 determined | nsubj |
| 21 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 more | advmod |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 determined | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 destroy | mark |
| 25 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 determined | ccomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 destroy | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Ferko's brothers | this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past · passive | envy and jealousy | to envy's fear | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to fear=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | brothers = brother | more | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | Ferko | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fear | envy | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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