The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 19
Hereupon the three brothers, at one and the same moment, fell upon the idea of offering themselves as suitors for the princess.
Who acts: Hereupon, idea · What happens: fall, offer · To what, where: idea, brothers
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon, idea), 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 | Hereupon | Hereupon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hereupon | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 moment | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 moment | amod |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hereupon | punct |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 idea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 idea | det |
| 16 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 offering | mark |
| 18 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 idea | acl |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 offering | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 suitors | case |
| 21 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 offering | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offering | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Hereupon | the idea | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon idea=Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | gerund | the idea not said here | brothers = brother | as suitors; for the princess goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme for princess=Goal |
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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