The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 46

So she told her grandson where to look for the net, and how he was to set it across the river; but just as he was starting, feeling himself quite a man, she called him back.

Who acts: thaw, Hare · What happens: tell, look, be, start, feel, call back · To what, where: grandson, river, Hare · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (thaw, Hare), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 told	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandson	nmod:poss
5	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 look	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grandson	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 net	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 net	det
11	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 look	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 set	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 set	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 set	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 set	mark
18	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	obj
20	across	across	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 starting	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 starting	cc
25	just	just	ADV	_	29 starting	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 starting	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 starting	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 starting	aux
29	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 feeling	punct
31	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 starting	advcl
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 feeling	obj
33	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	35 man	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feeling	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	nsubj
38	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	obj
40	back	back	ADV	_	38 called	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	thaw	thaw's grandson				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent grandson=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look	to-infinitive	thaw not said here	thaw's grandson not said here			for the net	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for net=Theme
3	is not said to happen	past	Hare			the river	set property	tree rules
4	start	past · progressive	Hare					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	feel	gerund	Hare not said here	Hare			quite man obl:unmarked	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	call back speech: assert	past	thaw		Hare			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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