The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 71

The golden hen was given to him at once, and, more than that, the Sister of the Sun told him that, in a little time, when he was a few years older, she would herself pay a visit to his home and become his wife.

Who acts: Sister, giant · What happens: give, tell, be, pay, become · To what, where: golden hen, giant, that, visit, wife · 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 (Sister, giant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hen	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	aux:pass
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 given	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 given	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 told	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 more	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 more	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sister	det
18	Sister	Sister	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 told	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Sun	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sun	det
21	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Sister	nmod
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 given	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 told	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 time	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 time	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 older	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 older	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 older	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 years	det
35	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 years	amod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 older	obl:unmarked
37	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 told	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pay	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 pay	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 pay	aux
41	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 pay	nsubj
42	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 given	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 visit	det
44	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pay	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 home	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 home	nmod:poss
47	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pay	obl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 become	cc
49	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 pay	conj
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 wife	nmod:poss
51	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 become	xcomp
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		the golden hen	giant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient at once=Asset
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Sister of the Sun	that	giant	time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
3	is	past	giant			year	old property	tree rules
4	pay	would	Sister	a visit			to giant's home	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
5	become	infinitive	Sister not said here	giant's wife				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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