The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 125
‘Your brothers Costan and Florea,’ replied the casket.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: reply · To what, where: casket
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | appos |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Florea | cc |
| 6 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Costan | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 casket | det |
| 11 | casket | casket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Your brothers | the casket | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent casket=Topic |
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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