The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 59

He told her he was going a long journey on important business, and that when he came back he would take her and her possessions to his own country, but that for the present she must stay in the castle.

Who acts: king, child · What happens: tell, go, come back, take, stay, possess · To what, where: child, long journey, important business, own country, castle · 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 (king, child), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 journey	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 journey	amod
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 business	case
11	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 business	amod
12	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 take	cc
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 take	advcl
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 take	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 possessions	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 possessions	nmod:poss
26	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 her	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 country	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 country	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 country	amod
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 that	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 that	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 take	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 present	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 present	det
36	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stay	obl
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stay	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 stay	aux
39	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 take	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 castle	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 castle	det
42	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stay	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	king		child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	king	a long journey		important business		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location journey=Theme
3	come back	past	king					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	would	king	child		king's own country	that obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to country=Destination
5	stay	must	child			the castle	for the present	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
6	possess		child					nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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