The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 27

He turned over in his mind without ceasing how he was to find out the meaning of the riddle, and to give them a right answer, and who could help him, and how to avenge his brothers.

Who acts: prince · What happens: turn over, cease, be, give, help, avenge · To what, where: mind, right answer, secrets, prince, brothers, riddle

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 (prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	2 turned	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 mind	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mind	nmod:poss
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
7	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 ceasing	mark
8	ceasing	cease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turned	advcl
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 find	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 find	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ceasing	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 find	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meaning	det
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 riddle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 riddle	det
19	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meaning	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turned	parataxis
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 answer	det
26	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 answer	amod
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 help	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 help	cc
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 help	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 help	aux
32	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 give	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 help	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 avenge	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 avenge	cc
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 avenge	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 avenge	mark
38	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 give	conj
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 brothers	nmod:poss
40	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 avenge	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn over	past	prince			prince's mind		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	cease	gerund	prince not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	past	prince				find property	tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive		a right answer	secrets = secret			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient answer=Theme
5	help	could			prince			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
6	avenge	to-infinitive		prince's brothers				tree rules
7	mind		prince					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	mean			the riddle				nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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