The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 49
And both brothers understood there was only one way in which they could kill him.
Who acts: brothers, one way · What happens: understand, be, kill · To what, where: way, one way · 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, one 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 understood | cc |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understood | nsubj |
| 4 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 understood | ccomp |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 way | nummod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 kill | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | both brothers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | one way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | could | brothers = brother | way | one way | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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