The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 48

The girl replied that she would like to go somewhere right at the other end of the island, and build a house, far away from the huts of the fishing-folk.

Who acts: girl · What happens: reply, like, go, build · To what, where: other end, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	xcomp
10	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 go	advmod
11	right	right	ADV	_	15 end	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 end	amod
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 island	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 island	det
18	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 end	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 build	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 build	cc
21	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 house	det
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 build	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 away	punct
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	21 build	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 huts	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 huts	det
29	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 away	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 folk	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 folk	det
32	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 folk	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 fishing	punct
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 huts	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the girl				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	like	would	girl				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	girl not said here		at the other end of the island	somewhere property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location
4	build	infinitive	the girl not said here	a house		away property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

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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