The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 78

“Didn’t I tell you I would bring you fire?” said he, holding up his net, which was now burning briskly.

Who acts: Hare, net · What happens: not do, tell, bring, say, hold up, burn · To what, where: you, fire, net · 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 (Hare, net), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
2	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Did	advmod
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bring	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	aux
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obj
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 holding	punct
17	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 holding	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 net	nmod:poss
20	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holding	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 burning	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 burning	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 burning	aux
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 burning	advmod
25	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 net	conj
26	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 burning	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not do in a quote	past	Hare not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	Hare		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	bring in a quote	would	Hare	fire	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination fire=Theme
4	say speech: ask	past	Hare					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	hold up	gerund	Hare not said here	Hare's net				vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot net=Theme
6	burn	past · progressive	Hare's net			now	briskly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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