The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 10

“Oh, I don’t think he will rob us!” said the boy; and when the man drew near, he told them his story, which so much interested the stranger that he asked leave to travel with them, as he might be of some use.

Who acts: I, boy, man, story · What happens: not think, rob, say, draw, tell, stranger · To what, where: us, story, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy, man, story), 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	_	7 think	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 think	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 think	advmod
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rob	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rob	aux
10	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 think	ccomp
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 rob	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 drew	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drew	nsubj
22	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	advcl
23	near	near	ADV	_	22 drew	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 drew	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 story	nmod:poss
29	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stranger	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 stranger	nsubj
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 interested	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	34 interested	advmod
34	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 stranger	amod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stranger	det
36	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 story	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 asked	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 asked	nsubj
39	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stranger	advcl
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 asked	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 travel	mark
42	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 leave	xcomp
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 travel	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 use	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 use	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 use	nsubj
48	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 use	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 use	cop
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 use	case
51	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 use	det
52	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 travel	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rob in a quote	future	boy	us			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Source
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	draw	past	the man			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	boy	boy's story and the interested stranger	bushes = bush		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
6	stranger		boy's story and the interested stranger				tree rules
7	ask speech: ask	past	man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	leave	infinitive					tree rules
9	travel	to-infinitive				with bushes = bush	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	might	man			of some use	tree rules

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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