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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 91

His elder brothers, who had in vain gone in pursuit of the thief of the golden apples, were furious over their younger brother’s good fortune, and plotted and planned how they were to kill him.

Who acts: elder brothers, brothers · What happens: go, be, plot, plan, kill, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, good fortune, emperor, thief

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brothers, 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

nmod:posscompoundnsubjpunctnsubjauxmarkadvmodacl:relclcaseoblcasedetnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctcopcasenmod:possamodnmod:posscaseamodoblpunctccconjccconjadvmodnsubjauxmarkadvclobjpunctrootHisPRONelderNOUNbrothersNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXinSCONJvainADVgoneVERBinADPpursuitNOUNofADPtheDETthiefNOUNofADPtheDETgoldenADJapplesNOUN,PUNCTwereAUXfuriousADJoverADPtheirPRONyoungerADJbrotherNOUN’sPARTgoodADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJplottedVERBandCCONJplannedVERBhowADVtheyPRONwereAUXtoPARTkillVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 brothersnmod:poss
2elderelderNOUNNumber=Sing3 brotherscompound
3brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur21 furiousnsubj
4,,PUNCT_9 gonepunct
5whowhoPRONPronType=Rel9 gonensubj
6hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 goneaux
7ininSCONJ_9 gonemark
8vainvainADV_9 goneadvmod
9gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 brothersacl:relcl
10ininADP_11 pursuitcase
11pursuitpursuitNOUNNumber=Sing9 goneobl
12ofofADP_14 thiefcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 thiefdet
14thiefthiefNOUNNumber=Sing11 pursuitnmod
15ofofADP_18 applescase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 applesdet
17goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos18 applesamod
18applesappleNOUNNumber=Plur14 thiefnmod
19,,PUNCT_3 brotherspunct
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 furiouscop
21furiousfuriousADJDegree=Posrootroot
22overoverADP_28 fortunecase
23theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 brothernmod:poss
24youngeryoungADJDegree=Cmp25 brotheramod
25brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing28 fortunenmod:poss
26’s'sPART_25 brothercase
27goodgoodADJDegree=Pos28 fortuneamod
28fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing21 furiousobl
29,,PUNCT_31 plottedpunct
30andandCCONJ_31 plottedcc
31plottedplotVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 furiousconj
32andandCCONJ_33 plannedcc
33plannedplanVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 plottedconj
34howhowADVPronType=Int38 killadvmod
35theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs38 killnsubj
36werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 killaux
37totoPART_38 killmark
38killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf33 plannedadvcl
39himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 killobj
40..PUNCT_21 furiouspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopast · perfectemperor's elder brotherspursuit of the thief of the golden applesvain propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location
2ispastemperor's elder brothersbrothers's younger brother's good fortunefurious propertytree rules
3plotparticipleemperor's elder brothers not said herevn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4planparticipleemperor's elder brothers not said herevn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5killpastbrothers = brotheremperorvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6pursuethe thief of the golden applesnom pursuit «act transitive»: of=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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