The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 14

In a short time the two elder brothers came home, and their mother asked to see the linen which had been woven out of the skeins of flax she had given them.

Who acts: two elder brothers, mother · What happens: come, ask, see, weave, give · To what, where: linen, skeins, brothers

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers, mother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brothers	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
7	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brothers	amod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mother	nmod:poss
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 linen	det
19	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 woven	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 woven	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 woven	aux:pass
23	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 linen	acl:relcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	27 skeins	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 skeins	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 skeins	det
27	skeins	skein	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 woven	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 flax	case
29	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 skeins	nmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 given	aux
32	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 flax	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 given	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the two elder brothers			time	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	brothers's mother					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	brothers's mother not said here	the linen				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer linen=Stimulus
4	weave	past · perfect · passive		the linen	the skeins of flax			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
5	give	past · perfect	mother	brothers = brother				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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