The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 38

When, after some days, they cast anchor at Kungla, the story of his wonderful swim brought him many friends, for everybody wished to hear him tell the tale himself.

Who acts: days, story, everybody, Tiidu · What happens: cast, bring, wish, hear, tell, swim · To what, where: anchor, Kungla, many friends, Tiidu, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, story, everybody, Tiidu), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 cast	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 days	punct
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 days	det
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cast	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 days	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cast	nsubj
8	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Kungla	case
11	Kungla	Kungla	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 story	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Kungla	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 swim	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 swim	nmod:poss
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 swim	amod
18	swim	swim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 story	acl:relcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obj
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 friends	amod
22	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 brought	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wished	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 wished	mark
25	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 wished	nsubj
26	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 hear	mark
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wished	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hear	obj
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hear	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tale	det
32	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obj
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 tell	iobj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast	present	some days	anchor		Kungla		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent anchor=Theme at kungla=Destination
2	bring	past	the story not said here	many friends	Tiidu		of Tiidu's wonderful swim	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination friend=Theme
3	wish	past	everybody					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	everybody not said here	Tiidu				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	everybody not said here	the tale	Tiidu			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient tale=Topic
6	swim		Tiidu					nom swim «act transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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