The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 89

I gave Koumongoé to Koane, Koumongoé to the keeper of beasts; For without Koumongoé they could not go to the meadows: Without Koumongoé they would starve in the hut; That was why I gave him the Koumongoé of my father.

Who acts: I, beasts, That · What happens: give, not go, starve, be · To what, where: Koumongoé, meadows, hut, Koane

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 (I, beasts, That), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Koane	case
5	Koane	Koane	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Koumongoé	punct
7	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Koane	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 keeper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 keeper	det
10	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 beasts	case
12	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keeper	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct
14	For	for	ADP	_	16 Koumongoé	case
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 Koumongoé	case
16	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 go	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 go	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 go	advmod
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 meadows	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meadows	det
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 go	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 starve	punct
25	Without	without	ADP	_	26 Koumongoé	case
26	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 starve	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 starve	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 starve	aux
29	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hut	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hut	det
32	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 starve	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 why	punct
34	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 why	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 why	cop
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	38 gave	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 gave	nsubj
38	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	advcl
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 gave	iobj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Koumongoé	det
41	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gave	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 father	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 father	nmod:poss
44	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Koumongoé	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	I		Koumongoé		to Koane and Koumongoé; to the keeper of beasts	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent koumongoé=Theme to koane=Recipient
2	not go	could	beasts = beast			the meadows	for Koumongoé	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location
3	starve	would	beasts = beast			the hut	without Koumongoé	tree rules
4	is	past	That				why property	tree rules
5	give	past	I	the Koumongoé of my father	Koane			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient koumongoé=Theme

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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