The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 108

“All has gone well so far,” she grumbled, when she told her story to the head,” but what do you suppose the sultan will say, when he sees his daughter’s husband?”

Who acts: All, Command, you, sultan · What happens: go, grumble, tell, suppose, say, see · To what, where: story, head, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, Command, you, sultan), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gone	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 far	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 grumbled	nsubj
11	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 told	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grumbled	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 story	nmod:poss
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 head	det
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 suppose	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 suppose	obj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 suppose	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 suppose	nsubj
27	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gone	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sultan	det
29	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 say	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 suppose	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sees	punct
33	when	when	SCONJ	_	35 sees	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sees	nsubj
35	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 say	ccomp
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 husband	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 daughter	case
39	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sees	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · perfect	All			far, well property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grumble speech: other	past	Command				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Command	Command's story	the head		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to head=Recipient
4	suppose in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme
5	say speech: assert in a quote	future	the sultan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	see in a quote	present	sultan	sultan's daughter's husband			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus

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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