The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 34
Then, when your brother comes back from the wood with his beasts you must go to him and say, “Brother, you are very strong.
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: come back, go, say, be · To what, where: wood, beasts, friend, Brother · 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 (brother, you), 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 | 28 strong | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 comes | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 strong | advcl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 comes | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 beasts | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wood | nmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beasts | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 say | cc |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Brother | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Brother | punct |
| 23 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 say | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 strong | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 strong | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 strong | advmod |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present | your brother | the wood with friend's beasts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | must | you | friend's beasts not said here | friend | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | Brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | then | strong 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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