The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 45
In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk.
Who acts: three brothers · What happens: live, be, kill · To what, where: three brothers, same village, mischievous hawk
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (three 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 village | amod |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brothers | nummod |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 determined | cop |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 determined | advmod |
| 13 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hawk | det |
| 17 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hawk | amod |
| 18 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | three brothers | the same village; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brother=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | three brothers | all, determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | three brothers not said here | the mischievous hawk | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme |
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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