The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 15

They all three left the room; and in a few minutes the two eldest returned, bringing with them the linen that had been spun by their chosen wives.

Who acts: brothers, two, chosen wives · What happens: leave, return, bring, spin, choose · To what, where: room, linen

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 (brothers, two, chosen wives), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 three	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 returned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 returned	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 minutes	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 minutes	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 minutes	amod
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 returned	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 returned	nsubj
15	eldest	eld	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 returned	advmod
16	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bringing	punct
18	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 returned	advcl
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bringing	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 linen	det
22	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bringing	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 spun	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spun	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 spun	aux:pass
26	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 linen	acl:relcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 wives	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wives	nmod:poss
29	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 wives	amod
30	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spun	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	brothers = brother	the room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme
2	return	participle	the two		minute	eld property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring	gerund	the two not said here	the linen		with brothers = brother	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent linen=Theme
4	spin	past · perfect · passive	brothers's chosen wives	the linen			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
5	choose	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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