The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 88

It took him some time to make up his mind, for no turtle likes being hurried, but at length he found one girl who seemed prettier and more industrious than the rest, and one day he entered her home, and said: “Will you marry me?”

Who acts: It, turtle, kind, one girl, you · What happens: take, make up, like, hurry, find, seem · To what, where: kind, mind, one girl, length, home, me · 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 (It, turtle, kind, one girl), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 took	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 make	compound:prt
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mind	nmod:poss
10	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 likes	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 likes	mark
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 turtle	det
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 likes	nsubj
15	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	advcl
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 hurried	aux:pass
17	hurried	hurry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 likes	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 length	case
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 girl	nummod
25	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 girl	acl:relcl
28	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 seemed	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 industrious	cc
30	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 industrious	advmod
31	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 prettier	conj
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 rest	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 industrious	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 entered	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 entered	cc
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 day	nummod
38	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 entered	obl:unmarked
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 entered	nsubj
40	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 home	nmod:poss
42	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 entered	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 said	cc
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
46	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 marry	punct
47	“	"	PUNCT	_	50 marry	punct
48	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 marry	aux
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 marry	nsubj
50	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 said	ccomp
51	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 marry	obj
52	?	?	PUNCT	_	50 marry	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	50 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It		kind		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	make up	to-infinitive		kind's mind					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	like	present	no turtle						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hurry not said to happen	gerund · passive	no turtle not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»
5	find	past	kind	one girl		length			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent girl=Theme at length=Asset
6	seem	past	one girl					pretty property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
7	enter	past	kind	girl's home			day		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme home=Destination
8	say speech: ask	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	marry in a quote	future	you	me					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
10	mind		kind						nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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