The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 15

“When you are married you will have plenty of time to choose one,” was all he answered, and they rode on two or three miles further.

Who acts: you, Hábogi, horses · What happens: marry, have, choose, be, rode · To what, where: you, plenty, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hábogi, horses), 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	_	8 have	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 married	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 married	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 married	aux:pass
5	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 answered	ccomp
9	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plenty	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 choose	mark
13	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 choose	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 answered	cop
18	all	all	ADV	_	20 answered	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rode	nsubj
24	rode	rode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answered	ccomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	29 miles	case
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 miles	nummod
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 three	cc
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 two	conj
29	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 rode	obl
30	further	further	ADV	_	24 rode	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry in a quote	present · passive		you		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	have in a quote	future	you	plenty of time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
3	choose in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	one		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	be speech: assert	past	Hábogi		all, answer property	tree rules
5	rode	present	horses = horse		on two miles; further property	tree rules

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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