The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 9

They will go out into the world and rule over poultry yards of their own; but this poor little fellow will always have to stay at home with his mother.’

Who acts: brothers, little fellow · What happens: go out, have, stay · To what, where: world, home

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, little fellow), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rule	cc
9	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 yards	case
11	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yards	compound
12	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rule	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 own	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 own	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 yards	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 fellow	det
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 little	amod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fellow	amod
21	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 have	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stay	mark
26	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 home	case
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stay	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 mother	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go out	future	brothers = brother	the world and rule over poultry yards of brothers's own	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	future	this little fellow		always property	tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive	this little fellow not said here	home	with fellow's mother	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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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