The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 47
But Masilo promised that he would never let his father see her, and that now she was a woman no one would try to hurt her; so Thakane’s heart melted, and she went down to the lake to consult the old woman.
Who acts: Masilo, father, that, one, heart, Thakane · What happens: promise, not let, see, be, try, hurt · To what, where: father, Thakane, woman, old woman
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, father, that, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 promised | cc |
| 2 | Masilo | Masilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 let | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 let | advmod |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promised | ccomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 woman | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 woman | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 woman | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 woman | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 woman | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 woman | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promised | obl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 try | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 try | aux |
| 24 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 woman | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hurt | mark |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 try | xcomp |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 melted | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 melted | advmod |
| 30 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Thakane | case |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 melted | nsubj |
| 33 | melted | melt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 promised | conj |
| 38 | down | down | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 lake | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lake | det |
| 41 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 consult | mark |
| 43 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 went | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 woman | det |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 woman | amod |
| 46 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 consult | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Masilo | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not let | would | Masilo | Masilo's father | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Masilo's father not said here | Thakane | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | a woman | now | tree rules | |||
| 5 | try | would | no one | a woman not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hurt not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | Thakane | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient | ||||
| 7 | melt | past | Thakane's heart | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 8 | go down | past | Thakane | to the lake; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 9 | consult | to-infinitive | Thakane not said here | the old woman | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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