The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 67

“My mother and I were both enchanted by a spiteful fairy,” said she, “we could not free ourselves till we had done some kindly deed that had never been wrought before.

Who acts: spiteful fairy, mother, we · What happens: enchant, say, do, not wrought · To what, where: mother, deed · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spiteful fairy, mother, we), 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	_	8 enchanted	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enchanted	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 I	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 mother	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 enchanted	aux:pass
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 enchanted	advmod
8	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 fairy	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fairy	det
11	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fairy	amod
12	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enchanted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enchanted	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 enchanted	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 free	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 free	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 free	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 free	advmod
22	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	parataxis
23	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 free	nsubj
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 done	mark
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 done	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 done	aux
27	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 free	advcl
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 deed	det
29	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	30 deed	advmod
30	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 done	obj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 wrought	obj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wrought	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 wrought	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 wrought	aux:pass
35	wrought	wrought	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 deed	acl:relcl
36	before	before	ADV	_	35 wrought	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enchant in a quote	past · passive	a spiteful fairy	My mother	both property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	past · perfect	we	some deed		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
4	not wrought in a quote	past · perfect · passive		some deed	before property	tree rules

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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