The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 5
Immediately the two elder brothers determined to try their luck, and asked their parents’ blessing.
Who acts: two elder brothers, parents · What happens: determine, try, ask, bless · To what, where: luck, blessing
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers, parents), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 determined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brothers | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brothers | amod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 determined | nsubj |
| 6 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 luck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 try | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 determined | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 parents | case |
| 17 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the two elder brothers | immediately property | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | the two elder brothers not said here | brothers's luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the two elder brothers not said here | brothers's parents's blessing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bless | brothers's parents | nom blessing «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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