The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 34

“She SHALL not look so much finer than us,” they cried passionately to each other as soon as they were alone; and when night came they stole out of their rooms, and taking out the wedding-dress, they laid it in the ash-pit, and heaped ashes upon it.

Who acts: Helga, sisters, night · What happens: not look, cry, be, come, steal, take out · To what, where: each, rooms, wedding dress, dress, ash pit, ashes · 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, sisters, night), 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 look	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	nsubj
3	SHALL	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 finer	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 finer	advmod
8	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 look	xcomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 finer	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	parataxis
15	passionately	passionately	ADV	_	14 cried	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	14 cried	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 cried	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 alone	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 alone	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 alone	cop
24	alone	alone	ADV	_	20 soon	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 laid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 laid	cc
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 came	advmod
28	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 laid	advcl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 stole	nsubj
31	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	35 rooms	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 rooms	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 rooms	nmod:poss
35	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 stole	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 taking	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 taking	cc
38	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 came	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 taking	compound:prt
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 dress	det
41	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dress	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 wedding	punct
43	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 taking	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 laid	nsubj
46	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 look	parataxis
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 laid	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	52 pit	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 pit	det
50	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pit	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 ash	punct
52	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 laid	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 heaped	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 heaped	cc
55	heaped	heap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 laid	conj
56	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 heaped	obj
57	upon	upon	ADP	_	58 it	case
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 heaped	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not look in a quote	shall	Helga				fine property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	sisters = sister		each		passionately, soon property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	is	past	sisters = sister				alone property	tree rules
4	come	past	night					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	steal	past	sisters = sister			sisters's rooms		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Location
6	take out	gerund	night not said here	the wedding dress				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
7	lay	past	sisters = sister	dress		the ash pit		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pit=Destination
8	heap	past	sisters = sister not said here	ashes		dress		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ash=Theme upon it=Destination

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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