The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 69

They set out all together, but as the two elder brothers were jealous of the success of the youngest, they took the opportunity as they were passing by the shores of a lake to throw themselves upon him, seize the Golden Bird, and fling him in the water.

Who acts: servants, two elder brothers · What happens: set out, be, take, pass, throw, seize · To what, where: opportunity, servants, Golden Bird, brother, water

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 (servants, two elder 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 together	advmod
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 set	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 jealous	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brothers	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 brothers	nummod
11	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brothers	amod
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 jealous	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 jealous	cop
14	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 took	advcl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 success	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 success	det
17	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jealous	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 youngest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youngest	det
20	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 success	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 jealous	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 opportunity	det
25	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 passing	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 passing	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 passing	aux
29	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 took	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 shores	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shores	det
32	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 passing	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 lake	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 lake	det
35	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shores	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 throw	mark
37	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 passing	advcl
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 throw	obj
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 throw	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 seize	punct
42	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 throw	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Bird	det
44	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 Bird	amod
45	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 seize	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 fling	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 fling	cc
48	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 took	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fling	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 water	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 water	det
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 fling	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	servants = servant			together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the two elder brothers			of the success; jealous property	tree rules
3	take	past	servants = servant	the opportunity			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
4	pass	past · progressive	servants = servant			by the shores of a lake	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by shore=Location
5	throw	to-infinitive	servants = servant not said here	servants = servant		upon brother	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme upon he=Destination
6	seize	infinitive	servants = servant not said here	the Golden Bird			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
7	fling	infinitive	servants = servant not said here	brother	the water		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme in water=Destination

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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