The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 44

With this he left her, and the princess, without an instant’s delay, opened the basket, and touching a turnip, cried eagerly: “Brunhilda, my dear Brunhilda! come to me quickly!”

Who acts: man, Brunhilda · What happens: leave, open, touch, cry, come · To what, where: maiden, basket, turnip, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Brunhilda), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 left	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 princess	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 princess	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 delay	punct
11	without	without	ADP	_	15 delay	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 instant	det
13	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 delay	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 instant	case
15	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 princess	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 opened	punct
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 basket	det
19	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 touching	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 touching	cc
22	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 left	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 turnip	det
24	turnip	turnip	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touching	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cried	punct
26	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	parataxis
27	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	26 cried	advmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 Brunhilda	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 Brunhilda	punct
30	Brunhilda	Brunhilda	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 come	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Brunhilda	punct
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 Brunhilda	nmod:poss
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 Brunhilda	amod
34	Brunhilda	Brunhilda	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Brunhilda	conj
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 Brunhilda	punct
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 cried	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 me	case
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 come	obl
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	36 come	advmod
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	man		maiden	with this; the princess and a instant's delay obl	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with this=Theme
2	open	past	man not said here	the basket			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location basket=Theme
3	touch	gerund	man not said here	a turnip			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme turnip=Co-Theme
4	cry speech: express	past				eagerly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come in a quote	infinitive	Brunhilda and my dear Brunhilda		me	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location

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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