The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 75
The two elder brothers chose the more frequented ways, but the youngest, bidding them farewell, set out on the dreary road.
Who acts: two elder brothers, youngest · What happens: choose, frequent, bid, set out · To what, where: frequented ways, brothers, dreary road
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, youngest), 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 chose | nsubj |
| 5 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ways | det |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 frequented | advmod |
| 8 | frequented | frequent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ways | amod |
| 9 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chose | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bidding | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 bidding | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youngest | det |
| 13 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 bidding | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bidding | punct |
| 15 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 chose | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bidding | obj |
| 17 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 15 bidding | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 bidding | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 23 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | the two elder brothers | the frequented ways | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | frequent | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bid | gerund | the youngest | brothers = brother | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | set out | participle | the dreary road | 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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