The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 33

Then the brothers had gone to consult old Birscha, who told them that Petru was already on his way home bearing the water.

Who acts: brothers, old Birscha, Petru, way · What happens: go, consult, tell, be, bear · To what, where: old Birscha, brothers, way, water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, old Birscha, Petru, way), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gone	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brothers	det
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 consult	mark
7	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	advcl
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Birscha	amod
9	Birscha	Birscha	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 consult	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Birscha	advcl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 way	mark
15	Petru	Petru	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 way	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 way	cop
17	already	already	ADV	_	20 way	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 way	nmod:poss
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	ccomp
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 way	advmod
22	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 way	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bearing	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the brothers				then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	consult	to-infinitive	the brothers not said here	old Birscha					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birscha=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	old Birscha		brothers = brother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	past	Petru			Petru's way		home property	tree rules
5	bear	gerund	Petru's way not said here	the water					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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