The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 81

“How did you come by all these?” he gasped, as soon as he could speak; and the son told him the whole story, and of the promise he had given Eisenkopf.

Who acts: you, Peter, son · What happens: come, gasp, speak, tell, give · To what, where: whole story, Peter, Eisenkopf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Peter, son), 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	_	5 come	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gasped	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 these	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 these	det:predet
8	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 come	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gasped	nsubj
12	gasped	gasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 soon	punct
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 gasped	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 speak	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 speak	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 speak	aux
19	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 soon	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 son	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	nsubj
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gasped	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 story	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 story	amod
28	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 given	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 given	cc
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 promise	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 promise	det
33	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 given	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 given	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 given	aux
36	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 told	ccomp
37	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 given	iobj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	past · do-support	you			by these	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by this=Location
2	gasp	past	Peter			soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	could	Peter				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the son	the whole story	Peter		tree rules
5	give	past · perfect · passive		Peter	Eisenkopf	of the promise	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient eisenkopf=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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