The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 78

She turned to him a hundred hearts, took his hand and seated him beside her, and said: “O youth! tell me truly who you are and where you come from, and how you fell into the power of my sister.”

Who acts: spite, youth, you · What happens: turn, take, seat, say, tell, be · To what, where: hundred hearts, Venus, hand, spite, power · 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 (spite, youth, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hearts	det
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hearts	nummod
7	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	parataxis
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seated	cc
13	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seated	obj
15	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seated	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 youth	punct
22	O	o	INTJ	_	23 youth	discourse
23	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	nsubj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 youth	punct
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	truly	truly	ADV	_	25 tell	advmod
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	25 tell	ccomp
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 who	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 who	cop
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 come	cc
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 come	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 come	nsubj
34	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 who	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	34 come	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fell	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fell	cc
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 fell	advmod
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	40 fell	nsubj
40	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	advcl
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 power	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 power	det
43	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fell	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 sister	case
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 sister	nmod:poss
46	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 power	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past	spite	a hundred hearts	Venus		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to he=Result
2	take	past		Venus's hand			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	seat	past		Venus		beside spite	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value
4	say speech: express	past	spite not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	youth		spite	truly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is a in a quote	present	you				tree rules
7	come in a quote	present	you				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fall in a quote	past	you			into the power of my sister result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result

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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