The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 14

One day, when his father sat brooding over his lost children, Almas came before him and said: “O father mine! the daughter of King Quimus has done my two brothers to death; I wish to avenge them upon her.”

Who acts: father, Almas, daughter · What happens: sit, brood, lose, come, say, do · To what, where: two brothers, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Almas, daughter), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sat	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	brooding	brood	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 children	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 children	nmod:poss
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 children	amod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brooding	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
14	Almas	Almas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
16	before	before	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 mine	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 mine	punct
22	O	o	INTJ	_	24 mine	discourse
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mine	compound
24	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 said	ccomp
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 daughter	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 daughter	det
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 Quimus	case
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Quimus	compound
30	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 daughter	nmod
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 mine	acl:relcl
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 brothers	nmod:poss
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 brothers	nummod
35	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 done	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 death	case
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 done	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 wish	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 wish	nsubj
40	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 avenge	mark
42	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wish	xcomp
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 avenge	obj
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 her	case
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 avenge	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	prince's father		day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	brood	gerund	prince's father not said here			over prince's lost children	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	Almas		before prince		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
5	say speech: express	past	Almas not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	do in a quote	present · perfect	the daughter of King Quimus	my two brothers		to death	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality
7	wish in a quote	present	Almas				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	avenge not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Almas not said here	father		upon Almas	tree rules

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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