The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 74

In a short time they came to three cross roads; two of them were gay and crowded, but the third was dark and lonely.

Who acts: brothers, two, third · What happens: come, be · To what, where: three cross roads

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 (brothers, two, third), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 roads	case
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 roads	nummod
9	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roads	amod
10	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 gay	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 gay	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 two	nmod
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gay	cop
16	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crowded	cc
18	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gay	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dark	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 dark	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 third	det
22	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 dark	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dark	cop
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gay	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lonely	cc
26	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dark	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	brothers = brother	three cross roads	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location
2	is	past	two of brothers			gay property	tree rules
3	be		two of brothers not said here				tree rules
4	is	past	the third			dark property	tree rules
5	be		the third not said here				tree rules

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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