The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 10
So the children left the house together; and the little sister, who was very wise for her years, said to the brother:
Who acts: children, little sister · What happens: leave, be, say · To what, where: house, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, little sister), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sister | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sister | amod |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wise | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 wise | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wise | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 wise | advmod |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sister | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 years | nmod:poss |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wise | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sister | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 brother | det |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the children | the house | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the little sister | year | wise property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the little sister | the brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
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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