The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 13

They halted before the gate and took counsel as to which of them should go in and see the lady herself.

Who acts: bushes · What happens: halt, take, go in, see · To what, where: counsel, lady

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 (bushes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 halted	nsubj
2	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 halted	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 took	cc
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 halted	conj
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 which	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 go	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 go	obl
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 took	parataxis
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
18	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 go	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obj
21	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 see	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 halted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	halt	past	bushes = bush		before the gate		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	take	past	bushes = bush not said here	counsel			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	go in	should				of bushes = bush	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of they=Initial_Location
4	see	infinitive		the lady		sun obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=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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