The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 62
The two brothers were delighted, for they thought they had now got rid of Ferko for ever.
Who acts: two brothers, brothers · What happens: be, think, get · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two brothers, 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 | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 thought | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | conj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | aux |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 got | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Ferko | case |
| 16 | Ferko | Ferko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ever | case |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 got | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two brothers | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | brothers = brother | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | brothers = brother | now | of Ferko; rid property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme of ferko=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 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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