The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 85
He is twin brother to my own horse, and can fly as high as the clouds themselves.
Who acts: animal · What happens: be, fly · To what, where: twin brother
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 (animal), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brother | cop |
| 3 | twin | twin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 horse | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fly | cc |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fly | aux |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 brother | parataxis |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fly | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 clouds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clouds | det |
| 17 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 high | obl |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 clouds | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | animal | twin brother | to my own horse | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | can | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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