The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 19
The youngest son set forth in his turn, and he arrived at the place where his brothers were still prisoners.
Who acts: youngest son, brothers · What happens: set, arrive, be · To what, where: youngest son, turn, place, prisoners
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 (youngest son, brothers), 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 | 3 son | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 son | acl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 turn | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 turn | nmod:poss |
| 8 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arrived | nsubj |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 prisoners | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 prisoners | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 prisoners | cop |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 prisoners | advmod |
| 21 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 place | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the youngest son not said here | landlord's turn | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in turn=Destination | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | the youngest son | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | landlord's brothers | prisoners | still | 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 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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