The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 81

By-and-by the boy grew into a man, as boys will, and then the oldest of the fairies said to her sisters: “Now I will marry him, and he shall be really your brother.”

Who acts: boy, oldest · What happens: grow, say, marry, be · To what, where: sisters, boy, brother · 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 (boy, oldest), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	8 grew	mark
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 By	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 boy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 will	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 will	mark
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 will	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 oldest	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 oldest	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 oldest	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oldest	det
20	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 said	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 fairies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fairies	det
23	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 oldest	obl
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 sisters	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sisters	nmod:poss
27	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 marry	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 marry	punct
30	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 marry	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 marry	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 marry	aux
33	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 marry	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 brother	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 brother	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 brother	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 brother	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 brother	cop
40	really	really	ADV	_	42 brother	advmod
41	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 brother	nmod:poss
42	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 marry	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 marry	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the boy				into a man result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into man=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the oldest		queen's sisters			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic
3	marry in a quote	future	the oldest = old	boy		now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	is a in a quote	shall	boy	your 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: «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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