The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 91

At this the Sister of the Sun grew rather frightened, and beginning at the beginning, she told him the story of his meeting with her, and how she had come a long way in order to marry him.

Who acts: Sister · What happens: grow, begin, tell, come, marry · To what, where: beginning, story, fear, long way · 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), 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	_	4 Sister	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Sister	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sister	det
4	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Sister	nmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod
10	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beginning	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beginning	cc
13	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 grew	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 beginning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beginning	det
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 beginning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 story	det
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 meeting	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 meeting	nmod:poss
25	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 story	nmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meeting	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 come	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 come	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 way	det
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 way	amod
36	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl:unmarked
37	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	40 marry	mark
38	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 in	fixed
39	to	to	PART	_	40 marry	mark
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 come	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	this Sister of the Sun				frightened property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	gerund	this Sister of the Sun not said here			at the beginning		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	past	Sister	the story of fear's meeting with sun	fear			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
4	come	past	Sister	a long way				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	marry	to-infinitive	Sister not said here	fear				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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