The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 77

“It is true—every word of it,” answered the boy; and went on to tell that the day and even the hour were fixed when his bride was to come and seek him.

Who acts: star, boy, bride · What happens: be, answer, go on, tell, fix, come · To what, where: day, boy, cask · 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 (star, boy, bride), 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	_	4 true	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 word	punct
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 answered	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
18	on	on	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tell	mark
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 went	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 fixed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fixed	nsubj:pass
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hour	cc
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 hour	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hour	det
27	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 day	conj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 fixed	aux:pass
29	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 tell	advcl
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 come	advmod
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bride	nmod:poss
32	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 come	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
34	to	to	PART	_	35 come	mark
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 fixed	advcl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seek	cc
37	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 come	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seek	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	star		true property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the boy			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go on	past	star not said here			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	star not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fix	past · passive		the day and the hour		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
6	come	past	boy's bride			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	seek	infinitive	boy's bride not said here	boy		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	word in a quote			cask		nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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