The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 30

So saying he would have drawn aside her veil; but the princess only held it more closely about her.

Who acts: princess · What happens: say, draw, hold · To what, where: gnome, veil · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drawn	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 drawn	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 drawn	aux
6	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 saying	ccomp
7	aside	aside	ADP	_	9 veil	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 veil	nmod:poss
9	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drawn	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 held	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 held	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 princess	det
13	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 held	nsubj
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 held	advmod
15	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drawn	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	obj
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 closely	advmod
18	closely	closely	ADV	_	15 held	advmod
19	about	about	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 held	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	draw	would · perfect · passive		gnome	aside hair's veil	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hold	past	the princess	veil	about hair; closely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme about she=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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