The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 102
Remembering what they had agreed to do, he walked round the two trees, and when he saw that blood oozed from the cut in the eldest prince’s tree he knew that his brother must be dead.
Who acts: fox, princes, blood, brother · What happens: remember, agree, do, walk, see, ooze · To what, where: two trees, cut, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fox, princes, blood, 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 | Remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 walked | advcl |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Remembering | obj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | aux |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remembering | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 trees | nummod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 saw | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 oozed | mark |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oozed | nsubj |
| 22 | oozed | ooze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 cut | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cut | det |
| 25 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oozed | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 prince | det |
| 28 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 prince | amod |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tree | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 prince | case |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oozed | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 knew | nsubj |
| 33 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tree | acl:relcl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 dead | mark |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brother | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 dead | nsubj |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 dead | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 dead | cop |
| 39 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 knew | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | fox not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | princes = prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | walk | past | fox | the two trees | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | see | past | fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | ooze | past | blood | the cut | in the eldest prince's tree | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from cut=Source | |||
| 7 | know | past | fox | the eldest prince's tree not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | is | must | fox's brother | dead property | 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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