The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 61

Then the girl bade him measure out the ground for a storehouse, and this, she said, might be as large as he pleased; and when the storehouse was ready she proposed that they should set off to pay her parents a visit.

Who acts: girl, storehouse, sounds · What happens: bade, measure out, say, be, propose, set off · To what, where: husband, ground, this, parents · 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, storehouse, sounds), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bade	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bade	nsubj
4	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bade	obj
6	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bade	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 measure	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measure	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 storehouse	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 storehouse	det
12	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 measure	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 this	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bade	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 large	punct
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 large	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 large	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 large	advmod
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 said	ccomp
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 pleased	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pleased	nsubj
26	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 large	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 ready	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ready	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 ready	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 storehouse	det
31	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ready	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ready	cop
33	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bade	parataxis
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 proposed	nsubj
35	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ready	acl:relcl
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 set	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 set	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 set	aux
39	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 proposed	ccomp
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 set	compound:prt
41	to	to	PART	_	42 pay	mark
42	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 set	xcomp
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 parents	nmod:poss
44	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pay	obj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 visit	det
46	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pay	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	the girl	husband		then		tree rules
2	measure out	infinitive	the girl not said here	the ground			for a storehouse	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ground=Value
3	say speech: assert	past	girl	this				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	might					large property	tree rules
5	is	past	the storehouse				ready property	tree rules
6	propose	past	girl					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	set off	should	sounds = sound					tree rules
8	pay	to-infinitive	sounds = sound not said here		girl's parents			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient visit=Asset

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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