The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 92

The mother-bird then remarked, “Truly, father! you were about to do a strange thing, and a terrible sin has been averted from you.”

Who acts: father · What happens: remark, be, do, avert · To what, where: mother bird, strange thing, terrible sin · 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 (father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bird	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 mother	punct
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remarked	nsubj:pass
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 remarked	advmod
6	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 remarked	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
9	Truly	truly	ADV	_	11 father	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Truly	punct
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 about	nsubj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 about	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 about	cop
15	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 remarked	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 about	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 averted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 averted	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sin	det
24	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sin	amod
25	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 averted	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 averted	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 averted	aux:pass
28	averted	avert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 remarked	conj
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 averted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 remarked	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remark speech: express	participle · passive		the mother bird	then		tree rules
2	is in a quote	past	father			about property	tree rules
3	do in a quote	to-infinitive	father not said here	a strange thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
4	avert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		a terrible sin		from you	tree rules

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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