The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 61

“He was here a moment ago—I saw him with my own eyes,” and the guards dared not contradict her, though they shook their heads and whispered to each other that the princess had gone mad on this subject, and saw a man in every table and chair.

Who acts: buzzing, guards, princess · What happens: be, see, contradict, shake, whisper, go · To what, where: buzzing, princess, heads, each, subject, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buzzing, guards, princess), 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 here	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moment	det
6	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 here	advmod
8	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 eyes	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eyes	amod
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 saw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 contradict	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 guards	det
20	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 contradict	nsubj
21	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 contradict	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 dared	advmod
23	contradict	contradict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 here	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 contradict	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 shook	punct
26	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 shook	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 shook	nsubj
28	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 contradict	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shook	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 whispered	cc
32	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 shook	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 each	case
34	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	32 whispered	obl
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 each	fixed
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 gone	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 princess	det
38	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gone	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 gone	aux
40	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 whispered	ccomp
41	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gone	xcomp
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 subject	case
43	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 subject	det
44	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 gone	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 saw	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 saw	cc
47	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	conj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 man	det
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 saw	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 table	case
51	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	52 table	det
52	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 saw	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 chair	cc
54	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 table	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	buzzing				ago, here property	tree rules
2	see in a quote	past	guards = guard	buzzing			with my own eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	contradict	past	the guards	princess				tree rules
4	shake	past	guards = guard	guards's heads				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	whisper speech: assert	past	guards = guard not said here		each			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go	past · perfect	the princess			this subject	mad property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on subject=Location
7	see	past	buzzing not said here	a man		every table and chair		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus

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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