The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 53

“Your sister has sent you this letter,” he said, and added quickly: “O mother! can you tell me anything of the Sister of the Sun?”

Who acts: sister, door, you · What happens: send, say, add, tell · To what, where: letter, you, anything, door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, door, you), 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	_	5 sent	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sent	iobj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 letter	det
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 added	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 added	cc
15	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 added	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
19	O	o	INTJ	_	20 mother	discourse
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	advcl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 mother	punct
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 tell	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Sister	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Sister	det
29	Sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 anything	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Sun	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Sun	det
32	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Sister	nmod
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send in a quote	present · perfect	Your sister	this letter	you		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination letter=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	door				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	add speech: assert	past				quickly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you	anything	door		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic

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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