The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 29
The poor maiden thought, ‘My home is no longer here; I will go and seek my brothers.’
Who acts: home, I · What happens: be, go, seek · To what, where: brothers
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, I), 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 | 4 thought | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | amod |
| 4 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 here | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 here | cop |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 longer | advmod |
| 11 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 here | advmod |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seek | cc |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seek | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My home | here, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | my brothers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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