The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 101

Now soon after this the prince’s youngest brother came to the cross-roads with the three birches, where the brothers had parted from each other when they set out on their wanderings.

Who acts: youngest brother, brothers, princes · What happens: come, part, set out, wander · To what, where: cross-roads, brothers, wanderings

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). 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, brothers, princes), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 came	advmod
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 soon	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brother	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 prince	case
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 cross-roads	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cross-roads	det
13	cross-roads	cross-road	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 birches	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birches	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 birches	nummod
17	birches	birch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cross-roads	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 parted	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 parted	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 brothers	det
21	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 parted	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 parted	aux
23	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 birches	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 each	case
25	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	23 parted	obl
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 set	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 set	nsubj
29	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 parted	advcl
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 set	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 wanderings	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wanderings	nmod:poss
33	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the prince's youngest brother		the cross-roads with the three birches	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cross-road=Initial_Location
2	part	past · perfect · passive		the brothers		from each	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from each=Co-Patient
3	set out	past	brothers = brother		princes's wanderings		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wander		princes = prince				nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=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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