The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 53

He then helped the frightened and half-fainting girl into the large cool verandah where her parents were sitting, and from that hour he was a welcome guest in the house, and it was not long before he was the promised husband of Julia.

Who acts: Alonzo, house, parents · What happens: help, frighten, faint, sit, be, not be · To what, where: girl, large cool verandah, welcome guest, house, promised husband

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alonzo, house, parents), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 helped	advmod
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 long	det
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 long	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fainting	cc
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 fainting	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 half	punct
9	fainting	faint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 frightened	conj
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fainting	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	15 verandah	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 verandah	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 verandah	amod
14	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 verandah	amod
15	verandah	verandah	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fainting	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 sitting	advmod
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 parents	nmod:poss
18	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sitting	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sitting	aux
20	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 verandah	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 guest	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 guest	cc
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 hour	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 hour	det
25	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 guest	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 guest	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 guest	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 guest	det
29	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 guest	compound
30	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sitting	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 guest	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 long	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 long	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 long	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 long	cop
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 long	advmod
39	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 helped	advmod
40	before	before	SCONJ	_	45 husband	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 husband	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 husband	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 husband	det
44	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 husband	amod
45	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 long	advcl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 Julia	case
47	Julia	Julia	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 husband	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	Alonzo			then		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	frighten	participle	house not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	faint	gerund	house not said here	girl	the large cool verandah			tree rules
4	sit	past · progressive	girl's parents					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Alonzo	a welcome guest	the house	hour		tree rules
6	not is	past	house				long property	tree rules
7	promise speech: promise	participle						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	Alonzo	the promised husband			of Julia	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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