The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 24

“Very well, good mother, I will do so,” answered the negro, and, the moment after he had vanished, he reappeared with the purse in his hand.

Who acts: negro, moment · What happens: do, answer, vanish, reappear · To what, where: good mother, hand · 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 (negro, moment), 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	_	6 mother	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 good	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mother	amod
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mother	acl:relcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 negro	det
16	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 answered	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reappeared	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reappeared	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reappeared	nsubj
22	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 vanished	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 vanished	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 vanished	aux
25	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 reappeared	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 vanished	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reappeared	nsubj
28	reappeared	reappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 answered	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 purse	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 purse	det
31	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reappeared	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reappeared	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	future	the negro = negro	good mother not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
2	answer speech: assert	past	the negro				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	vanish	past · perfect	negro				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reappear	past	the moment		negro's hand	with the purse	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

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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