The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 35

“Leave that to me; I will manage him,” replied the wife, and at that moment the turtle came in, and seized her by the wrist.

Who acts: wife, turtle · What happens: leave, manage, reply, come in, seize · To what, where: that, wife, turtle · 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 (wife, turtle), 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	_	2 Leave	punct
2	Leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 replied	ccomp
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 Leave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Leave	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 manage	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 manage	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Leave	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 manage	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 manage	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Leave	punct
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 replied	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 turtle	det
22	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 replied	parataxis
24	in	in	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seized	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seized	cc
27	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seized	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 wrist	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wrist	det
31	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seized	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	infinitive		that	the wife = wife			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to i=Recipient
2	manage in a quote	future	the wife = wife	turtle				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past	the wife					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in	past	the turtle			moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seize	past	the turtle not said here	wife			by the wrist	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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