The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 73
The two elder brothers took many servants and carriages with them, but the youngest set out quite alone.
Who acts: two elder brothers · What happens: take, set out · To what, where: many servants
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 servants | amod |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carriages | cc |
| 9 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 servants | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carriages | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youngest | det |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 took | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 alone | advmod |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the two elder brothers | many servants and carriages with carriages | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set out | participle | the two elder brothers not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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