The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 153

Then a negro will appear, and you must say to him: ‘The head, your master, desires you to open the trunk, and to give me the green purse which you will find in it.’”

Who acts: negro, you, head · What happens: appear, say, desire, open, give, find · To what, where: negro, you, trunk, green purse, me, purse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (negro, you, head), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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