The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 66

For a moment the girl sat choked with fear, as these thoughts rushed through her; then she said: “Alonzo, will you promise something?”

Who acts: thoughts, girl, you · What happens: choke, rush, say, promise · To what, where: girl, something · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thoughts, girl, you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 choked	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 choked	nsubj:pass
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 choked	aux:pass
7	choked	choke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 fear	case
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 choked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rushed	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 rushed	mark
12	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 thoughts	det
13	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rushed	nsubj
14	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 choked	conj
15	through	through	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rushed	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 said	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 choked	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 promise	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 promise	punct
23	Alonzo	Alonzo	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 promise	vocative
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Alonzo	punct
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 promise	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 promise	nsubj
27	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 promise	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 promise	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	choke	past · passive		the girl	moment	with fear	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fear=Theme
2	rush	past	this thoughts			through girl	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through she=Trajectory
3	say speech: ask	past	girl		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	future	you	something		Alonzo vocative	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=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 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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