The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 76
Wherever linen was to be bought, there the two elder brothers hastened.
Who acts: two elder brothers · What happens: buy, hasten · To what, where: linen
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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 bought | advmod |
| 2 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bought | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bought | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bought | aux:pass |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hastened | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 hastened | expl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brothers | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brothers | amod |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hastened | nsubj |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · passive | linen | wherever property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the two elder brothers | there | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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