The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 95

“I’ll go to my sister the frog,” he thought to himself, “and she will sew them together for me”; and he set off at once for the swamp in which his sister lived.

Who acts: rock, great many, sister · What happens: go, think, sew, set off, live · To what, where: frog, rock, pieces, swamp · 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 (rock, great many, sister), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sister	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sister	nmod:poss
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 frog	det
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 thought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sew	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 sew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sew	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sew	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sew	aux
21	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sew	obj
23	together	together	ADV	_	21 sew	advmod
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sew	obl
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 sew	punct
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	nsubj
30	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 set	compound:prt
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 once	case
33	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 set	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 swamp	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 swamp	det
36	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 lived	obl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sister	nmod:poss
40	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lived	nsubj
41	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 swamp	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	rock	the frog			to my sister	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sister=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	past	rock		rock			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sew in a quote	future	great many = many	pieces = piece			for rock; together property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for i=Beneficiary
4	set off	past	rock				for the swamp	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	past	rock's sister			the swamp		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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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