The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 56
No, he went home to his father, and cured his blindness; and as for his brothers, they never returned again.
Who acts: Petru, brothers · What happens: go, cure, not return · To what, where: blindness
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 (Petru, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cured | cc |
| 11 | cured | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blindness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cured | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 brothers | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brothers | cc |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 brothers | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 brothers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 returned | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 returned | nsubj |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 returned | advmod |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 returned | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Petru | to Petru's father; for Petru's brothers; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cure | past | Petru not said here | Petru's blindness | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer blindness=Source | ||||
| 3 | not return | past | brothers = brother | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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