The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 18
And the twelve brothers followed her gladly, and their father’s brother stood at the door, and gave them meat and drink.
Who acts: twelve brothers, brother · What happens: follow, stand, give · To what, where: woman, door, meat, girls
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve brothers, brother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 followed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 followed | obj |
| 7 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 followed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 followed | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drink | cc |
| 24 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meat | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the twelve brothers | woman | gladly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | girls's father's brother | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | past | girls's father's brother not said here | meat and drink | girls = girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meat=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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