The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 21
“Now that I have got you I will keep you,” said the leader, who had happened to seize his betrothed.
Who acts: leader · What happens: get, keep, say, happen, seize, betroth · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader), 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 | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 keep | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 got | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 keep | csubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happened | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 leader | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 seize | mark |
| 22 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 happened | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 betrothed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 seize | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the leader = leader | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | future | the leader = leader | you | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the leader | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | the leader | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seize | to-infinitive | the leader not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | betroth | participle | the leader not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/12/21/