The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 16

Next it was the mother's turn; and, as was the custom of the tribe, she spoke to her daughter:

Who acts: dance, custom · What happens: be, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dance, custom), 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	Next	next	ADP	_	7 turn	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mother	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 custom	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 custom	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 custom	case
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 custom	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 custom	det
14	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tribe	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tribe	det
17	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 custom	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 spoke	nsubj
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 daughter	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	dance	next the mother's turn	tree rules
2	is	past		as the custom; of the tribe	tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past	custom	to custom's daughter	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to daughter=Co-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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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