The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 113

When he had finished every scrap she spoke as before: “Tell me, my grandson, have not the good spirits visited you all these many days that you have fasted?”

Who acts: boy, grandson, good spirits, you · What happens: finish, speak, tell, have, not visit, fast · To what, where: scrap, grandson, you, many days · 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 (boy, grandson, good spirits, 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	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 spoke	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 scrap	det
6	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 spoke	advmod
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct
13	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spoke	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Tell	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grandson	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 grandson	nmod:poss
17	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Tell	parataxis
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 visited	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spirits	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spirits	amod
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 visited	nsubj
24	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 have	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 visited	obj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 days	det:predet
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 days	det
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 days	amod
29	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 fasted	obj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 fasted	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 fasted	aux
33	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 days	acl:relcl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 fasted	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	boy	every scrap				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector scrap=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	past	grandson				before property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		my grandson	grandson			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	have in a quote	present				day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not visit in a quote	past	the good spirits	you				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
6	fast in a quote	present · perfect	you	all many days				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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