The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 26

When the negro understood that he was being abused, he cried: “Come along!

Who acts: negro · What happens: understand, abuse, cry, come along · To what, where: negro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (negro), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 understood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 negro	det
3	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 understood	nsubj
4	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 abused	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 abused	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 abused	aux:pass
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 abused	aux:pass
9	abused	abuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 understood	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 understood	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Come	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Come	punct
15	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cried	conj
16	along	along	ADV	_	15 Come	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	understand	past	the negro			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	abuse	past · passive		negro		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	negro			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come along in a quote	infinitive	negro not said here		along property	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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