The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 85

He fell into long and far thought, and Dil-aram looked at him and said: “O my life and my soul! do not be sad.

Who acts: task, Dil aram · What happens: fall, think, look, say, do, not be · To what, where: long · 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 (task, Dil aram), 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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 long	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thought	cc
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 thought	advmod
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
10	Dil	Dil	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 aram	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Dil	punct
12	aram	aram	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 life	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 life	punct
20	O	o	INTJ	_	22 life	discourse
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 soul	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 soul	nmod:poss
25	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 life	conj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 soul	punct
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 sad	advmod
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 sad	cop
30	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 do	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fall	past	task	into long result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into long=Result
2	think speech: other	past	task not said here	far property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	Dil aram	at task	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	say speech: express	past	task not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is in a quote	infinitive		sad property	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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