The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 30

But Helga only told them that they should see for themselves on the third day, when they would come to her wedding.

Who acts: Helga, father · What happens: tell, see, come, wed · To what, where: father, wedding · 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 (Helga, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	Helga	Helga	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 themselves	case
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 see	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 come	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 wedding	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wedding	nmod:poss
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Helga	father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	see	should	father			day	for father	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	come	would	father		Helga's wedding			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location
4	wed		Helga					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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