The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 14

At the cross roads the two elder brothers debated if they should go the same way as the youngest, but when they saw how dreary and deserted it looked they made up their minds that it would be impossible to find what they sought in these wilds, and so they stuck to their former paths.

Who acts: brothers, it · What happens: debate, go, see, desert, look, make up · To what, where: two elder brothers, same way, minds, wilds

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, it), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 roads	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roads	det
3	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roads	compound
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 brothers	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
7	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brothers	amod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roads	nmod
9	debated	debate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 brothers	acl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 go	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 debated	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 way	amod
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl:unmarked
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 youngest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 youngest	det
19	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 go	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 saw	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 saw	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 roads	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 dreary	advmod
26	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 saw	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 deserted	cc
28	deserted	desert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 deserted	ccomp
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 looked	ccomp
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 made	compound:prt
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 minds	nmod:poss
35	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	obj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 impossible	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 impossible	expl
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 impossible	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 impossible	cop
40	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 made	parataxis
41	to	to	PART	_	42 find	mark
42	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 impossible	csubj
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 find	obj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 sought	nsubj
45	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 what	acl:relcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 wilds	case
47	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	48 wilds	det
48	wilds	wild	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sought	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 stuck	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 stuck	cc
51	so	so	ADV	_	53 stuck	advmod
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 stuck	nsubj
53	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saw	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	57 paths	case
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 paths	nmod:poss
56	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 paths	amod
57	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 stuck	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 roads	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	debate	participle		the two elder brothers not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go a condition, not said to happen	should	brothers = brother	the same way		as the youngest	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	brothers = brother			dreary property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	desert	past	brothers = brother not said here				tree rules
5	look	past	it				tree rules
6	make up	past	brothers = brother	brothers's minds			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
7	is	would				impossible property	tree rules
8	find	to-infinitive					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
9	seek	past	brothers = brother		this wilds		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wild=Location
10	stick	past	brothers = brother			to brothers's former paths	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to path=Co-Patient
11	mind		brothers = brother				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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