The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 84

At length the vessel was safe in port, and a whisper went through the watching crowd that on board was the Sister of the Sun, who had come to marry the young peasant as she had promised.

Who acts: vessel, whisper, that, Sister · What happens: be, go, watch, come, marry, promise · To what, where: length, watching crowd, Sister, board

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 (vessel, whisper, that, Sister), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 safe	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vessel	det
4	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 safe	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	cop
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 port	case
8	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 safe	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 whisper	det
12	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 safe	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	17 crowd	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crowd	det
16	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 crowd	amod
17	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 Sister	nsubj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 board	case
20	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Sister	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Sister	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sister	det
23	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crowd	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Sun	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Sun	det
26	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Sister	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 come	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 Sister	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 marry	mark
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 peasant	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 peasant	amod
35	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 marry	ccomp
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 promised	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 promised	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 promised	aux
39	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 peasant	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the vessel		length	in port; safe property	tree rules
2	go	past	a whisper		the watching crowd		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Initial_Location
3	watch	gerund					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	that	the Sister	board	of the Sun	tree rules
5	come	past · perfect	the Sister				tree rules
6	marry	to-infinitive	the Sister not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	promise speech: promise	past · perfect	whisper				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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