English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 12
Then the second brother got tired and sick of waiting, and he went to the Warlock Merlin and asked him the same as his brother.
Who acts: second brother, Merlin · What happens: get, wait, go, ask · To what, where: Warlock Merlin, same, Merlin
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second brother, Merlin), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brother | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sick | cc |
| 8 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tired | conj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 waiting | mark |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sick | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Merlin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Merlin | det |
| 17 | Warlock | Warlock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Merlin | compound |
| 18 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 same | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 asked | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 brother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the second brother | then | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | the second brother not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Merlin | the Warlock Merlin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merlin=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the second brother not said here | the same | Merlin | as Merlin's brother | tree rules |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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