The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 72

One day he sent his eldest son, Rosald, a brave and honest youth, to the neighbouring town to do some business, and here Rosald met a young man named Geirald, with whom he made friends.

Who acts: knight, Rosald · What happens: send, neighbour, do, meet, name, make · To what, where: eldest son, business, young man, friends

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 (knight, Rosald), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
6	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 son	amod
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Rosald	punct
9	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 youth	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 youth	det
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 youth	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 honest	cc
14	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brave	conj
15	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 town	punct
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
19	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 town	amod
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 town	acl
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 business	det
24	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 met	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 met	cc
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 met	advmod
28	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 met	nsubj
29	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 met	obj
33	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 man	acl
34	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 named	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 whom	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 whom	case
37	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 met	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 made	nsubj
39	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 whom	acl:relcl
40	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 made	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	send	past	knight	knight's eldest son and a brave youth		day	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme
2	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	knight not said here	some business			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality
4	meet	past	Rosald	a young man	here		vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme with whom=Instrument
5	name	participle		a young man not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	knight	friends			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product

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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