The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 79

And they gathered round to admire his beauty, and whispered one to the other: “We will make him alive again, and will keep him for our brother.”

Who acts: fairies, We · What happens: gather, admire, whisper, make, keep · To what, where: beauty, one, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairies, We), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gathered	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 gathered	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 admire	mark
6	admire	admire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gathered	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 beauty	nmod:poss
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 admire	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whispered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 whispered	cc
11	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 whispered	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 whispered	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
18	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 make	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 make	aux
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 whispered	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 make	obj
22	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 make	xcomp
23	again	again	ADV	_	20 make	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 keep	cc
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 keep	aux
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 make	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 keep	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 brother	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brother	nmod:poss
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	fairies = fairy			round property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	admire	to-infinitive	fairies = fairy not said here	king's beauty			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus
3	whisper speech: assert	past	fairies = fairy not said here	one		to the other	tree rules
4	make in a quote	future	We	king	again	alive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
5	keep in a quote	future	We not said here	king		for our brother	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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