The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 94

“Kill one of those deer for your own dinner,” said the boy-brother, “but catch me another alive.

Who acts: boy brother · What happens: kill, say, catch · To what, where: one, another, boy brother · 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 (boy brother), 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	_	2 Kill	punct
2	Kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Kill	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 deer	case
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 dinner	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dinner	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dinner	amod
10	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deer	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Kill	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brother	det
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brother	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 boy	punct
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 catch	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 catch	cc
21	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 catch	obj
23	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 catch	obj
24	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 catch	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	infinitive		one of that deer for your own dinner			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	catch in a quote	infinitive	the boy brother not said here	another	the boy brother = brother	alive property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary another=Theme

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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