The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 96

When he got up he salaamed to it, who returned his greeting with joy and gratitude, and caressed him and said: “O youth, tell me true! who are you, and where are you going?

Who acts: sunshine, you · What happens: get up, salaam, return, caress, say, tell · To what, where: Simurgh, greeting, sunshine · 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 (sunshine, you), 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	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 salaamed	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 got	compound:prt
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 salaamed	nsubj
6	salaamed	salaam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 salaamed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 returned	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 returned	nsubj
11	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 salaamed	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 greeting	nmod:poss
13	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 returned	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 joy	case
15	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 greeting	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gratitude	cc
17	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 joy	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 caressed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 caressed	cc
20	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 salaamed	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caressed	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caressed	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
26	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	27 youth	case
27	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 youth	punct
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 tell	iobj
31	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 tell	xcomp
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	29 tell	ccomp
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 who	cop
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 who	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 going	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 going	cc
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 going	advmod
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 going	aux
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 going	nsubj
41	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 salaamed	conj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 salaamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get up	past	sunshine				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	salaam	past	sunshine		Simurgh		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient
3	return	past		sunshine's greeting		with joy and gratitude	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
4	caress	past	sunshine not said here	sunshine			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
5	say speech: ask	past	sunshine not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			sunshine	of youth; true property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	is a in a quote	present	you				tree rules
8	go in a quote	present · progressive	you				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	greet		sunshine			with joy and gratitude	nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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