The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 11
The youth took the same direction as his brother, and when he came to the cross roads, he too tossed up which road he should take.
Who acts: youth · What happens: take, come, toss up · To what, where: same direction, cross roads, road
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 direction | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 direction | amod |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tossed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tossed | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tossed | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 roads | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roads | det |
| 17 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roads | compound |
| 18 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 tossed | nsubj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 tossed | advmod |
| 22 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 tossed | compound:prt |
| 24 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 25 road | det |
| 25 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tossed | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 road | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the youth | the same direction | as youth's brother | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme as brother=Attribute | |||
| 2 | come | past | youth | the cross roads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | toss up | past | youth | which road | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | should | youth | which road not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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