The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 46

Instead, to the surprise of everyone, she merely smiled gracefully, and said that before she bestowed her hand one more test must be imposed, but this should be the last.

Who acts: crowd, this · What happens: smile, say, bestow, impose, be, surprise · To what, where: surprise, hand, one more test, everyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, this), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	_	11 smiled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Instead	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 surprise	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 surprise	det
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smiled	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 everyone	case
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 surprise	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smiled	nsubj
10	merely	merely	ADV	_	11 smiled	advmod
11	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	11 smiled	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smiled	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 bestowed	mark
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 bestowed	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bestowed	nsubj
19	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bestowed	obj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 test	nummod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 test	amod
24	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 imposed	nsubj:pass
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 imposed	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 imposed	aux:pass
27	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 bestowed	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 last	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 last	cc
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 last	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 last	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 last	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 last	det
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 smiled	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	smile	past	crowd		the surprise of everyone	gracefully, instead, merely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to surprise=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	crowd not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bestow	past	crowd	crowd's hand			tree rules
4	impose	must · passive		one more test			vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	should	this			last property	tree rules
6	surprise			everyone			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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