The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 90

“I dare say it would be the best place for me,” he answered, trembling; and he suffered his wife to take him upstairs, and to help him off with his clothes.

Who acts: I, sound, man · What happens: say, be, answer, tremble, suffer, take · To what, where: best place, wife, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sound, man), 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	_	4 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	dare	dare	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 place	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 place	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 place	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 place	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 place	amod
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 place	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 trembling	punct
18	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 answered	advcl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 suffered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 suffered	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 suffered	nsubj
22	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wife	nmod:poss
24	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 suffered	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 suffered	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	obj
28	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	26 take	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 help	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 help	cc
31	to	to	PART	_	32 help	mark
32	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 help	obj
34	off	off	ADP	_	32 help	compound:prt
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 clothes	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 clothes	nmod:poss
37	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	32 help	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	dare	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	would	sound	the best place		for me	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tremble	gerund	man not said here				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	suffer	past	man	man's wife			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
6	take	to-infinitive	man not said here		man	upstairs property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
7	help off	to-infinitive	I not said here		man	with man's clothes	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with clothes=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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