The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 139
And in a moment the two princes stood before their brother, and their beasts stood round them.
Who acts: two princes, beasts · What happens: stand
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 (two princes, beasts), 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 | _ | 8 stood | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princes | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 princes | nummod |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stood | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the two princes | before princes's brother; moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before brother=Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | princes's beasts | round princes = prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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