The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 54

“Ah, that is delightful; we want something new,” answered they, and placed the princess between the outstretched arms of the fox.

Who acts: that, we, people · What happens: be, want, answer, place · To what, where: something, princess, outstretched arms · 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 (that, we, people), 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 delightful	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 delightful	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 delightful	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 delightful	cop
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 answered	ccomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 want	nsubj
9	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 delightful	parataxis
10	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 want	obj
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 something	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 want	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 delightful	punct
14	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 answered	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 placed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 placed	cc
18	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 answered	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 placed	obj
21	between	between	ADP	_	24 arms	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 arms	det
23	outstretched	outstretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 arms	amod
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 princess	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 fox	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fox	det
27	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arms	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	that			delightful property	tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	we	something			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot something=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	people				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	place	past	people not said here	the princess	the outstretched arms of the fox		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme between arm=Destination

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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