The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 29

For some days Thakane stayed quietly at home, and her husband began to think that the man had been mistaken; but at last she said to her husband: “I am going to bathe in the river.”

Who acts: Thakane, husband · What happens: stay, begin, think, mistake, say, go · To what, where: home, man, husband, last · 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 (Thakane, husband), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stayed	obl
4	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	nsubj
5	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 stayed	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 home	case
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 husband	nmod:poss
12	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 think	mark
15	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 mistaken	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mistaken	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mistaken	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 mistaken	aux:pass
21	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 think	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stayed	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 husband	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 husband	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	obl
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 going	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 said	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 bathe	mark
37	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 going	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bathe	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Thakane			home	day	quietly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
2	begin	past	Thakane's husband						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Thakane's husband not said here						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mistake	past · perfect · passive		the man					tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Thakane		Thakane's husband	last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	Thakane						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	bathe in a quote	to-infinitive	Thakane not said here					in the river	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in river=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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