The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 16
But the youngest brother was greatly troubled, for he had nothing to show for the skein of flax that had been given to him.
Who acts: youngest brother, two · What happens: be, have, show, give · To what, where: nothing, flax, two
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 (youngest brother, two), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 troubled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 troubled | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 troubled | cop |
| 6 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 7 troubled | advmod |
| 7 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 had | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 troubled | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 show | mark |
| 14 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 nothing | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 skein | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skein | det |
| 17 | skein | skein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 show | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 flax | case |
| 19 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skein | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 given | obj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 flax | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 given | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the youngest brother | greatly, troubled property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | two | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | two not said here | nothing not said here | for the skein of flax | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | give | past · perfect · passive | flax | two | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: that=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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