The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 123
So when they were alone together she besought him to go and seek for his brother and bring him home.
Who acts: brothers, princess · What happens: be, beseech, go, seek, bring · To what, where: master
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 (brothers, princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 besought | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 together | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 together | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 together | cop |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 together | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 besought | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 besought | nsubj |
| 8 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 besought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 besought | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seek | cc |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 brother | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seek | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brothers = brother | alone, together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beseech | past | princess | master | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | princess not said here | for master's brother | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for brother=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | princess not said here | master | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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