The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 50

But on the thirty-ninth evening after her visit to the palace, the head suddenly spoke.

Who acts: head, woman · What happens: speak, visit · 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 (head, woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 spoke	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	7 evening	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ninth	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 thirty	punct
6	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 evening	amod
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spoke	obl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 visit	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 visit	nmod:poss
10	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 visit	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 head	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spoke	nsubj
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 spoke	advmod
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the head				evening	suddenly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	visit		woman					to the palace	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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