The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 24

“I must begin the preparations for our wedding at once,” he said; “but my foster-brother will take you home, as I promised.

Who acts: Hábogi, foster brother, our · What happens: begin, say, take, promise, wed · To what, where: preparations, you · 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 (Hábogi, foster brother, our), 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 begin	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 begin	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 begin	aux
4	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 preparations	det
6	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 begin	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wedding	nmod:poss
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 preparations	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 begin	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 begin	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 take	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 take	cc
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brother	nmod:poss
20	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brother	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 foster	punct
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 take	aux
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 take	obj
26	home	home	ADV	_	24 take	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 promised	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 promised	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 promised	nsubj
30	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 take	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	must	Hábogi	the preparations		for our wedding	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Hábogi				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	future	my foster brother		you	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	Hábogi				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	wed in a quote		our				nom wedding «event 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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