The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 3
If anything went wrong with their affairs, Peter had to bear the blame and put things right for them, and he had to endure all this ill-treatment because he was weak and delicate and couldn’t defend himself against his stronger brothers.
Who acts: anything, Peter · What happens: go, have, bear, put, endure, be · To what, where: blame, things, ill treatment, Peter
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 (anything, Peter), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | advcl |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 affairs | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bear | mark |
| 12 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blame | det |
| 14 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bear | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bear | conj |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 endure | mark |
| 26 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | xcomp |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 treatment | det:predet |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 treatment | det |
| 29 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 treatment | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ill | punct |
| 31 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 endure | obj |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 weak | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 weak | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 weak | cop |
| 35 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 endure | advcl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 delicate | cc |
| 37 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 weak | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 defend | cc |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 defend | aux |
| 40 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 defend | advmod |
| 41 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 weak | conj |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 defend | obj |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 46 brothers | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 45 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 brothers | amod |
| 46 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 defend | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | with brothers's affairs; wrong property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with affair=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | the blame | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blame=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Peter not said here | things | for brothers = brother; right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | |||
| 5 | have | past | Peter | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | endure | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | all ill treatment | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Circumstance | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Peter | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | Peter not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | not defend | could | Peter not said here | Peter | against Peter's stronger brothers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary against brother=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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