The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 18

At length the other brothers grew angry at seeing that he never came back without bringing two golden apples with him, and they went to consult an old witch, who promised to spy after him, and discover how he managed to get the apples.

Who acts: other brothers, prince, brothers, old witch · What happens: grow, see, not come back, bring, go, consult · To what, where: length, two golden apples, old witch, apples · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other brothers, prince, brothers, old witch), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brothers	amod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 seeing	mark
9	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 grew	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seeing	ccomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 bringing	mark
16	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 came	advcl
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 apples	nummod
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 apples	amod
19	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bringing	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 apples	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 consult	mark
27	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 witch	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 witch	amod
30	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 consult	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 promised	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 promised	nsubj
33	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 witch	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 spy	mark
35	spy	spy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 promised	xcomp
36	after	after	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 spy	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 discover	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 discover	cc
40	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 grew	conj
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 managed	advmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 managed	nsubj
43	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 discover	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 get	mark
45	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 managed	xcomp
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 apples	det
47	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 get	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the other brothers		length		angry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location
2	see	gerund	the other brothers not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not come back	past	prince					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bring	gerund	prince not said here	two golden apples			with prince	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
5	go	past	brothers = brother					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	consult	to-infinitive	brothers = brother not said here	a old witch				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme
7	promise speech: promise	past	a old witch					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	spy not said to happen	to-infinitive	a old witch not said here			after prince		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
9	discover	infinitive	the other brothers not said here					vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	manage	past	prince					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	get	to-infinitive	prince not said here	the apples				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus

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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