The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 60

The elder brother, who had eaten the Yellow Bird’s head, travelled a long way without meeting with any particular adventure, until at last he reached a large city in Asia, which was all in an uproar over the choosing of a new Emir.

Who acts: elder brother, brother, Asia, uproar · What happens: eat, travel, meet, reach, be, choose · To what, where: head, long way, large city, last, uproar

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, brother, Asia, uproar), 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	3 brother	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travelled	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 eaten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 brother	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bird	det
9	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Bird	amod
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 head	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Bird	case
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 brother	punct
14	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 travelled	obj
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 meeting	mark
19	meeting	meet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 travelled	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 adventure	case
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 adventure	det
22	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 adventure	amod
23	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 meeting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 reached	punct
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 reached	mark
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 last	case
27	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reached	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 reached	nsubj
29	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 travelled	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 city	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 city	amod
32	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reached	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Asia	case
34	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 reached	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 uproar	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 uproar	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 uproar	cop
38	all	all	ADV	_	41 uproar	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 uproar	case
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 uproar	det
41	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Asia	appos
42	over	over	SCONJ	_	44 choosing	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 choosing	det
44	choosing	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 uproar	acl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 Emir	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 Emir	det
47	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Emir	amod
48	Emir	Emir	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 choosing	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	the elder brother	the Yellow Bird's head			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	travel	past	the elder brother	a long way			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory
3	meet	gerund	the elder brother not said here			with any particular adventure	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with adventure=Co-Agent
4	reach	past	brother	a large city	last	in Asia	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent city=Theme at last=Asset
5	is	past	Asia		a uproar	all property	tree rules
6	choose	gerund	a uproar not said here			of a new Emir	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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