English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 5
_, 329, in which there are three brothers who go through the adventures.
Who acts: three brothers · What happens: be, go · To what, where: adventures
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 329 | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 329 | punct |
| 3 | 329 | 329 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 are | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 are | obl |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 are | expl |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 329 | conj |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brothers | nummod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 are | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 adventures | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 adventures | det |
| 15 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 329 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | three brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | present | three brothers | the adventures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through adventure=Initial_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: «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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