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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 74

For some time he had set his heart on travelling into foreign countries, and after he had been talking for a little while to Rosald, he asked if his new friend would be his companion on his journey.

Who acts: man, new friend · What happens: set, travel, talk, ask, be, journey · To what, where: man, foreign countries, companion, journey

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 (man, new friend), 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

casedetoblnsubj:passauxnmod:possobjmarkadvclcaseamodoblpunctccmarknsubjauxauxadvclcasedetamodoblcasenmodpunctnsubjparataxismarknmod:possamodnsubjauxcopnmod:possccompcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootForADPsomeDETtimeNOUNhePRONhadAUXsetVERBhisPRONheartNOUNonSCONJtravellingVERBintoADPforeignADJcountriesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJhePRONhadAUXbeenAUXtalkingVERBforADPaDETlittleADJwhileNOUNtoADPRosaldPROPN,PUNCThePRONaskedVERBifSCONJhisPRONnewADJfriendNOUNwouldAUXbeAUXhisPRONcompanionNOUNonADPhisPRONjourneyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_3 timecase
2somesomeDETPronType=Ind3 timedet
3timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing6 setobl
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 setnsubj:pass
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 setaux
6setsetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 heartnmod:poss
8heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing6 setobj
9ononSCONJ_10 travellingmark
10travellingtravelVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 setadvcl
11intointoADP_13 countriescase
12foreignforeignADJDegree=Pos13 countriesamod
13countriescountryNOUNNumber=Plur10 travellingobl
14,,PUNCT_29 askedpunct
15andandCCONJ_29 askedcc
16afterafterSCONJ_20 talkingmark
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 talkingnsubj
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 talkingaux
19beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part20 talkingaux
20talkingtalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 askedadvcl
21forforADP_24 whilecase
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 whiledet
23littlelittleADJDegree=Pos24 whileamod
24whilewhileNOUNNumber=Sing20 talkingobl
25totoADP_26 Rosaldcase
26RosaldRosaldPROPNNumber=Sing24 whilenmod
27,,PUNCT_20 talkingpunct
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 askednsubj
29askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 setparataxis
30ififSCONJ_37 companionmark
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 friendnmod:poss
32newnewADJDegree=Pos33 friendamod
33friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing37 companionnsubj
34wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin37 companionaux
35bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf37 companioncop
36hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 companionnmod:poss
37companioncompanionNOUNNumber=Sing29 askedccomp
38ononADP_40 journeycase
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 journeynmod:poss
40journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing37 companionnmod
41..PUNCT_6 setpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1setpast · perfect · passivemantimevn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination
2travelgerundforeign countriesvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination
3talkpast · perfect · progressivemanwhilevn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4ask speech: askpastmanvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5is a a condition, not said to happenwouldman's new friendman's companionman's journeytree rules
6journeymannom journey «act 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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