The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 42

In the evening he said to his wife: “I have seen my daughter, in the place where you told me you had drowned her.

Who acts: rest, wife · What happens: say, see, tell, drown · To what, where: wife, daughter, place, rest · 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 (rest, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 seen	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 seen	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 told	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 place	acl:relcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 drowned	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drowned	aux
26	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 told	ccomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 drowned	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	rest		rest's wife		evening	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
2	see in a quote	present · perfect	rest	my daughter		the place		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	rest's wife = wife		rest			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	drown in a quote	past · perfect · passive		rest's wife = wife				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient she=Result

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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