The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 46

He confided to her that he had travelled all the way from his own country for her sake, having fallen in love with the accounts he had heard of her beauty, and he then and there asked her to be his wife.

Who acts: Ring · What happens: confide, travell, fall, hear, ask, be · To what, where: Signy, way, own country, love, accounts, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ring), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confided	nsubj
2	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confided	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 travelled	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 travelled	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 travelled	aux
8	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 confided	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travelled	obl:unmarked
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 country	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travelled	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 sake	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sake	nmod:poss
18	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 travelled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fallen	punct
20	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 fallen	aux
21	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 travelled	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 love	case
23	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fallen	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 accounts	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 accounts	det
26	accounts	account	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fallen	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heard	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 heard	aux
29	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 accounts	acl:relcl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 beauty	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 beauty	nmod:poss
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heard	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 asked	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 asked	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 asked	nsubj
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 asked	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 there	cc
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 then	conj
39	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 confided	parataxis
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 asked	obj
41	to	to	PART	_	44 wife	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 wife	cop
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 wife	nmod:poss
44	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 asked	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 confided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confide speech: other	past	Ring		Signy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	travell	past · perfect	Ring	all way		Ring's own country		for Signy's sake	tree rules
3	fall	gerund · perfect	Ring not said here			love		with the accounts	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
4	hear	past · perfect	Ring	the accounts not said here				of Signy's beauty	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	past	Ring		Signy		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		Ring's wife					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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