The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 68

When she had recovered her breath, the mother began her little speech once more.

Who acts: Daughter, mother · What happens: recover, begin, speak · To what, where: breath, little speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Daughter, mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 recovered	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 recovered	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	aux
4	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 breath	nmod:poss
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recovered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mother	det
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 recovered	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 speech	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 speech	amod
13	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obj
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 began	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect	Daughter	Daughter's breath	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	begin	past	the mother	Daughter's little speech	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Eventuality
3	speak		Daughter		nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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