The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 107

“Some of them have come, and have given me a portion of both,” answered the boy, “but many have stayed away from me.”

Who acts: Some, boy, many · What happens: come, give, answer, stay away · To what, where: portion, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, boy, many), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 come	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Some	nmod
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 given	cc
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 given	aux
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 come	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 given	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 portion	det
13	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 given	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 both	case
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 portion	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 given	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answered	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stayed	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 stayed	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 stayed	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stayed	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stayed	aux
26	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 answered	conj
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 stayed	advmod
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 stayed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · perfect	Some				tree rules
2	give in a quote	present · perfect	Some not said here	a portion of both	the boy = boy		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient portion=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the boy				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stay away in a quote	present · perfect	many			from the boy = boy; away property	vn exist-47.1 «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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