The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 113

Then Pivi told Kabo about the kind woman, and all the wonderful things that had happened to him.

Who acts: Pivi, wonderful things · What happens: tell, happen · To what, where: wonderful things, Kabo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, wonderful things), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 woman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 things	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 things	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 things	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 things	det
13	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 things	amod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 happened	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 things	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happened	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Pivi	all wonderful things	Kabo		then	about the kind woman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kabo=Recipient about woman=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect	all wonderful things		Kabo				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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