The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 17
Then the brothers separated from each other, and each of them set out down a different road, followed by their beasts.
What happens: separate, set out, follow · To what, where: brothers, each
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 separated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 separated | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 set | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 each | nmod |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 separated | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 17 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 set | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 beasts | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 followed | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | participle · passive | the brothers | then | from each | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from each=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | set out | participle · passive | each | down a different road | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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