The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 100

The first thing he did was to call all his relations together, and ask them if they would come with him and make war on the people of a neighbouring village.

Who acts: chance, first thing, relations · What happens: do, be, ask, come, make, neighbour · To what, where: first thing, relations, war

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, first thing, relations), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 call	nsubj:outer
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 call	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 call	mark
8	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 relations	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 relations	nmod:poss
11	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 call	obj
12	together	together	ADV	_	8 call	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 call	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ask	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 make	cc
24	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	conj
25	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 people	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 war	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 village	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 village	det
31	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 village	amod
32	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 people	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	chance	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing			call, together property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	the first thing not said here		relations = relation		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come a condition, not said to happen	would	relations = relation			with chance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	present	relations = relation not said here	war		on the people of a neighbouring village	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product
6	neighbour	gerund					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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