The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 2
This youngest brother was made a regular butt of by the other two, and they treated him shamefully.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: make, treat · To what, where: youngest brother, him
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 butt | det |
| 7 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 butt | amod |
| 8 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 butt | case |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 two | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 two | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 two | amod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treated | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 treated | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 treated | nsubj |
| 17 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 treated | obj |
| 19 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 17 treated | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | this youngest brother | by the other two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | treat | past | brothers = brother | him = he | shamefully property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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