The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 53

When she saw the gilded horns and the kerchief she said: “It must be accustomed to the hand, and be some royal pet!”

Who acts: girl, kerchief · What happens: see, gild, say, accustom, be · To what, where: gilded horns, kerchief, royal pet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, kerchief), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horns	det
5	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 horns	amod
6	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kerchief	det
9	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 accustomed	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 accustomed	punct
14	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 accustomed	nsubj:pass
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 accustomed	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 accustomed	aux:pass
17	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hand	det
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 accustomed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pet	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pet	cc
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 pet	cop
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 pet	det
25	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pet	amod
26	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	parataxis
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 pet	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 pet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	girl	the gilded horns		tree rules
2	gild	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	the kerchief			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	accustom in a quote	must · passive		kerchief	to the hand	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	infinitive		some royal pet		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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