The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 41
The wicked brothers stamped and foamed with rage when they saw the failure of their wicked designs.
Who acts: wicked brothers, brothers, wicked designs · What happens: stamp, foam, see, fail, design · To what, where: failure
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked brothers, brothers, wicked designs), 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 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stamped | nsubj |
| 4 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 foamed | cc |
| 6 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stamped | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foamed | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 foamed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 failure | det |
| 13 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 designs | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 designs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 designs | amod |
| 17 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 failure | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | past | the wicked brothers | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | foam | past | the wicked brothers not said here | with rage | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | brothers = brother | the failure of brothers's wicked designs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer failure=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fail | brothers's wicked designs | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | design | brothers = brother | nom design «act 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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