The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 36
The three young men took counsel together, and talked the subject well over, as brothers should do.
Who acts: three young men, brothers · What happens: take, talk, do · To what, where: counsel, subject
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three young men, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 talked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 talked | cc |
| 10 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 subject | det |
| 12 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talked | obj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 over | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 talked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 talked | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the three young men | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | past | the three young men not said here | the subject | over property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | should | brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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