The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 32

“I should be ashamed of living in such a place,” whispered each to the other; and the eldest sister spoke of the carved stone over HER doorway, and the second boasted of the number of rooms SHE had.

Who acts: I, eldest sister, Helga · What happens: be, live, whisper, speak, carve, boast · To what, where: place, each, other, second, rooms · 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 (I, eldest sister, Helga), 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	_	5 ashamed	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ashamed	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ashamed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ashamed	cop
5	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 whispered	nsubj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 living	mark
7	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 ashamed	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 place	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 living	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 ashamed	punct
14	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 whispered	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 other	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 whispered	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 spoke	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spoke	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sister	det
22	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 sister	amod
23	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoke	nsubj
24	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 whispered	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 stone	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stone	det
27	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 stone	amod
28	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoke	obl
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 doorway	case
30	HER	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 doorway	nmod:poss
31	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stone	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 boasted	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 boasted	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 second	det
35	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	36 boasted	obl:unmarked
36	boasted	boast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 spoke	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 number	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 number	det
39	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 boasted	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 rooms	case
41	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 number	nmod
42	SHE	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 rooms	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	should	I				ashamed property	tree rules
2	live in a quote	gerund	I not said here			such place		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
3	whisper speech: assert	past		each	the other			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Topic to other=Recipient
4	speak speech: other	past	the eldest sister				of the carved stone over Helga's doorway	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	carve	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	boast speech: other	participle	the eldest sister not said here	the second			of the number of rooms	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	Helga	rooms not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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