The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 30

“How can we thank you? how can we thank you?” they stammered, hardly able to speak; and fell at her feet in gratitude.

Who acts: we, others · What happens: thank, stammer, speak, fall · To what, where: you, feet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, others), 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 thank	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 thank	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 thank	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 thank	nsubj
5	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stammered	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 thank	advmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 thank	aux
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 thank	nsubj
11	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thank	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 thank	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stammered	nsubj
16	stammered	stammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 able	punct
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 able	advmod
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stammered	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 speak	mark
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 able	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fell	cc
24	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stammered	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fell	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 gratitude	case
29	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fell	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 stammered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	can	we	you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	thank speech: thank in a quote	can	we	you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	stammer speech: other	past	others = other				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	others = other not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fall	past	others = other not said here		bearskin's feet	in gratitude	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location

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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