The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 68
When he reached the inn where his brothers were detained, he delivered them by paying their debt.
Who acts: youth · What happens: reach, detain, deliver, pay · To what, where: inn, brothers, servants, debt
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 delivered | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 inn | det |
| 5 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 detained | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 detained | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 detained | aux:pass |
| 10 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 inn | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 delivered | nsubj |
| 13 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 delivered | obj |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 paying | mark |
| 16 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 delivered | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 debt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paying | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | youth | the inn | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent inn=Theme | ||||
| 2 | detain | past · passive | youth's brothers | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | deliver | past | youth | servants = servant | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pay | gerund | youth not said here | servants's debt | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset |
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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