The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 36
The brothers needed no second bidding, and in a moment were out of the house.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: need, be · To what, where: second bidding, house
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 (brothers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 needed | nsubj |
| 3 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 bidding | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 bidding | amod |
| 6 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 house | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 house | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | obl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 house | cop |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | past | the brothers | no second bidding | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bidding=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the house | moment | tree rules |
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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