The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 24

“Masilo,” he said, as he entered the hut, “I have just beheld your wife near the river with a girl who must be your daughter, she is so like you.

Who acts: Masilo, girl · What happens: say, enter, behold, be · To what, where: hut, wife, river, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo, girl), 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	_	2 Masilo	punct
2	Masilo	Masilo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Masilo	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Masilo	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 entered	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 entered	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 entered	nsubj
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hut	det
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beheld	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 beheld	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 beheld	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 beheld	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 beheld	advmod
18	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheld	obj
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beheld	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 girl	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 girl	det
26	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 river	nmod
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 daughter	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 daughter	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 daughter	cop
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 girl	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 you	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 you	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 you	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 you	advmod
36	like	like	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 beheld	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Masilo				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	enter	past	Masilo	the hut			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination
3	behold in a quote	present · perfect	Masilo	your wife	the river with a girl		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	must	a girl	your daughter			tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	girl			like you	tree rules

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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