The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 76

A very large old animal, since dead, had given it to him when he was hardly more than a baby, and had told him never to part with it, for as long as he kept it no harm could ever come near him.

Who acts: Neuislandischen, harm · What happens: give, be, tell, keep, come · To what, where: dead, Neuislandischen, part, animal · 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 (Neuislandischen, harm), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 large	advmod
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 given	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 given	mark
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 given	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 given	aux
11	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 animal	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 given	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 given	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 more	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 more	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 more	cop
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 given	obj
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 baby	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 baby	det
22	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 more	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	aux
26	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 given	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 part	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 part	mark
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 part	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 kept	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 long	case
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 long	advmod
36	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 kept	advmod
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 kept	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 kept	nsubj
39	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 told	conj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 kept	obj
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 harm	det
42	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 come	nsubj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 come	aux
44	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 come	advmod
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 kept	ccomp
46	near	near	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 come	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 animal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		dead	Neuislandischen			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Theme
2	is	past	Neuislandischen				than a baby; hardly, more property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · perfect		part with part	Neuislandischen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	keep	past	Neuislandischen	animal			long property	tree rules
5	come	could	no harm			ever	near Neuislandischen	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location

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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