The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 85

There they embraced and parted, promising that if anything remarkable had happened to either, he would return to the cross roads and wait till his brother came.

Who acts: brothers, anything, road, brother · What happens: embrace, part, promise, happen, return, wait · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, anything, road, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3282:3376): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 embraced	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 embraced	nsubj
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 parted	cc
5	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 embraced	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 promising	punct
7	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 parted	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 return	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 happened	mark
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 happened	nsubj
11	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anything	amod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happened	aux
13	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 return	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 either	case
15	either	either	DET	_	13 happened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 return	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 return	aux
19	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 promising	ccomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 roads	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roads	det
22	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roads	compound
23	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 return	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wait	cc
25	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 return	conj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wait	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	brothers = brother	there		vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	part	past	brothers = brother not said here			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	promise speech: promise	gerund	brothers = brother not said here			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	anything		to either	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	would	road		to the cross roads result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result
6	wait	infinitive	road not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	past	road's brother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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