The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 15
So each of the princes did as the eldest brother had said, and when the three birches were marked by their arrows they turned to their step-sister and asked her with which of them she meant to live.
Who acts: each, eldest brother, arrows, brothers · What happens: do, say, mark, turn, ask, mean · To what, where: three birches, wolf · 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 (each, eldest brother, arrows, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 princes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princes | det |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 each | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 said | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brother | det |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 did | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 marked | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 birches | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 birches | nummod |
| 18 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 marked | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 marked | aux:pass |
| 20 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 turned | advcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 arrows | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 marked | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 did | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 sister | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sister | nmod:poss |
| 28 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sister | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 step | punct |
| 30 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 asked | cc |
| 32 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 asked | iobj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 which | case |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 meant | nsubj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 which | obl |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 meant | nsubj |
| 39 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 asked | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 live | mark |
| 41 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 meant | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | each | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the eldest brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | mark | past · passive | brothers's arrows | the three birches | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | brothers = brother | to brothers's step sister result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sister=Result | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | brothers = brother not said here | wolf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | mean | past | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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