The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 18

Then there are tales from India, told to Major Campbell, who wrote them out, by Hindoos; these stories are “Wali Dâd the Simple-hearted,” and “The King who would be Stronger than Fate,” but was not so clever as his daughter.

Who acts: Major, stories, King · What happens: tell, write out, be, not be · To what, where: tales, Hindoos, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Major, stories, King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 are	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hearted	cop
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 India	case
6	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tales	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 tales	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Major	case
10	Major	Major	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	obl:agent
11	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Major	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrote	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wrote	nsubj
14	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Major	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wrote	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	14 wrote	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Hindoos	punct
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 Hindoos	case
19	Hindoos	Hindoos	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 hearted	punct
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 stories	det
22	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hearted	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hearted	cop
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 hearted	punct
25	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Dâd	compound
26	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hearted	nsubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hearted	det
28	Simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hearted	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Simple	punct
30	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hearted	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 hearted	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Stronger	cc
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 Stronger	punct
35	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 King	det
36	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Stronger	nsubj
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 Stronger	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 Stronger	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 Stronger	cop
40	Stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 hearted	conj
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 Fate	case
42	Fate	Fate	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Stronger	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Fate	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	42 Fate	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 clever	cc
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 clever	cop
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 clever	advmod
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 clever	advmod
49	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 Stronger	conj
50	as	as	ADP	_	52 daughter	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 daughter	nmod:poss
52	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 clever	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 hearted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	participle		tales from India not said here	Hindoos		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hindoos=Recipient
2	write out	past	Major	people			vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	this stories			hearted property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	would	the King			than Fate; strong property	tree rules
5	not is	past	the King not said here			as King's daughter; clever property	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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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