The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 65

“Have you decided what your husband’s name is to be?” said the father, laughingly, to his eldest daughter, one evening when they were all sitting at the door of their cottage.

Who acts: you, name, father, daughters, husband · What happens: decide, be, say, sit, name · To what, where: door · 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 (you, name, father, daughters), 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	_	4 decided	punct
2	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 decided	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 decided	nsubj
4	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 said	ccomp
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 decided	obl:agent
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 husband	nmod:poss
7	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 husband	case
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
11	to	to	PART	_	12 be	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 what	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 decided	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 decided	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 father	det
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 laughingly	punct
19	laughingly	laughingly	ADV	_	15 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 daughter	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 daughter	amod
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 evening	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 evening	nummod
27	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	conj
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 sitting	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sitting	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sitting	aux
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 sitting	advmod
32	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 daughter	acl
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 door	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 door	det
35	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sitting	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 cottage	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 cottage	nmod:poss
38	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 door	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	decide in a quote	present · perfect	you			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	your husband's name			tree rules
3	say speech: ask	past	the father		laughingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	sit	past · progressive	daughters = daughter	the door of daughters's cottage	all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
5	name in a quote		your husband			nom name «communication 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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