The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 117

In a little while he called her to sit beside him; but this was more than I could bear.

Who acts: person, this, I · What happens: call, sit, be, bear · To what, where: Gul, little · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, this, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 little	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 called	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 called	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 sit	mark
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	xcomp
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sit	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 more	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 more	cc
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 more	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	cop
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 called	parataxis
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 bear	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bear	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bear	aux
20	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 more	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	person	Gul	a little		tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	person not said here			beside person	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
3	is	past	this			more property	tree rules
4	bear	could	I				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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