The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 38

“Yes, it was,” answered the princess; and she told him the whole story, and how she had broken her gold ring and given him half of it.

Who acts: princess · What happens: be, tell, break, give · To what, where: whole story, suspicion, gold ring, half · 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 (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	_	8 answered	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 was	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	cop
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 story	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 story	amod
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 broken	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 broken	cc
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 broken	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 broken	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 broken	aux
24	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	parataxis
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ring	nmod:poss
26	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ring	amod
27	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broken	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 given	cc
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 broken	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	obj
31	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 given	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 half	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the princess			answer property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	princess	the whole story	suspicion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
3	break	past · perfect	princess	princess's gold ring			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Patient
4	give	participle	princess not said here	half of seat	suspicion		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient half=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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