The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 37
When the brother came home, the step-sister did as the robber had told her, and fastened her brother’s thumbs behind his back.
Who acts: brother, step sister · What happens: come, do, tell, fasten · To what, where: robber, sister, thumbs, back · 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, step sister), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sister | det |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sister | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 step | punct |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 told | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robber | det |
| 14 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 did | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fastened | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fastened | cc |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thumbs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 24 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fastened | obj |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the brother | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the step sister | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the robber | sister | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past | the step sister not said here | sister's brother's thumbs | back's back | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thumb=Patient |
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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