The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 28

“Good mother,” said the head, one day, “this morning you are to go to the city and ask the sultan to give me his daughter for my bride.”

Who acts: Good mother, sultan · What happens: say, go, ask, give · To what, where: city, sultan, daughter, Good mother · 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 (Good mother, 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	_	3 mother	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 mother	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 are	nsubj
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 morning	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 are	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sultan	det
26	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ask	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	xcomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 bride	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bride	nmod:poss
34	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Good mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	to-infinitive	Good mother not said here			the city		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	Good mother not said here	the sultan				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient clause=Topic
4	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the sultan not said here	wealth's daughter	Good mother = mother		for my bride	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient daughter=Theme for bride=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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