English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 28
Here again we have two brothers in search of a sister, who has got into the power of an enchanter.
Who acts: we, sister · What happens: have, get, search · To what, where: two brothers, search, power, sister
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. 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 (we, sister), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 search | case |
| 8 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brothers | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sister | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 search | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 sister | acl:relcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 power | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 power | det |
| 18 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 enchanter | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 enchanter | det |
| 21 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 power | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | we | two brothers | search of a sister | again | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | a sister | the power of a enchanter | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into power=Destination | ||||
| 3 | search | a sister | nom search «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: «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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