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The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 28

“Make sure for yourself that I am speaking the truth by hiding among the bushes the first time Thakane says she is going to bathe in the river, and waiting till the girl appears.”

Who acts: I, Thakane, girl · What happens: make, speak, hide, say, go, bathe · To what, where: truth, bushes · 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 (I, Thakane, 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

punctccompxcompcaseoblmarknsubjauxadvcldetobjmarkconjcasedetobldetamodobl:unmarkedapposnsubjauxccompmarkxcompcasedetoblpunctccparataxismarkdetnsubjadvclpunctpunctroot“PUNCTMakeVERBsureADJforADPyourselfPRONthatSCONJIPRONamAUXspeakingVERBtheDETtruthNOUNbySCONJhidingVERBamongADPtheDETbushesNOUNtheDETfirstADJtimeNOUNThakanePROPNsaysVERBshePRONisAUXgoingVERBtoPARTbatheVERBinADPtheDETriverNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwaitingVERBtillSCONJtheDETgirlNOUNappearsVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Makepunct
2MakemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 saysccomp
3suresureADJDegree=Pos2 Makexcomp
4forforADP_5 yourselfcase
5yourselfyourselfPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes3 sureobl
6thatthatSCONJ_9 speakingmark
7IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 speakingnsubj
8ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 speakingaux
9speakingspeakVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 Makeadvcl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 truthdet
11truthtruthNOUNNumber=Sing9 speakingobj
12bybySCONJ_13 hidingmark
13hidinghideVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 speakingconj
14amongamongADP_16 bushescase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 bushesdet
16bushesbushNOUNNumber=Plur13 hidingobl
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 timedet
18firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord19 timeamod
19timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing13 hidingobl:unmarked
20ThakaneThakanePROPNNumber=Sing19 timeappos
21sayssayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 goingnsubj
23isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 goingaux
24goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 saysccomp
25totoPART_26 bathemark
26bathebatheVERBVerbForm=Inf24 goingxcomp
27ininADP_29 rivercase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 riverdet
29riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing26 batheobl
30,,PUNCT_32 waitingpunct
31andandCCONJ_32 waitingcc
32waitingwaitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 goingparataxis
33tilltillSCONJ_36 appearsmark
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 girldet
35girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing36 appearsnsubj
36appearsappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 waitingadvcl
37..PUNCT_32 waitingpunct
38”"PUNCT_24 goingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1make in a quoteinfinitivesure propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2speak speech: other in a quotepresent · progressiveIthe truthtree rules
3hide in a quotegerundI not said herethe bushestimevn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bush=Location
4say speech: assert in a quotepresentvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5go in a quotepresent · progressiveThakanevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6bathe in a quoteto-infinitiveThakane not said herein the rivervn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in river=Theme
7wait in a quotegerundvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8appear in a quotepresentthe girlvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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