The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 123

This pleased the old woman so much that she brought him another basin of food, and while he was eating it she talked to him, and this is what she said: “Far away, on the other side of the great river, is the home of the Bad One.

Who acts: This, grandmother, boy · What happens: woman, bring, eat, talk, be, say · To what, where: basin, boy, pleased old woman, other side, home · 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 (This, grandmother, boy), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 woman	nsubj
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 home	parataxis
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	5 woman	advmod
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 brought	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	nsubj
10	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 brought	obj
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 basin	det
13	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brought	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 food	case
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 basin	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 talked	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 talked	cc
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 eating	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eating	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 eating	aux
21	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 talked	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eating	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 talked	nsubj
24	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 talked	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 what	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 what	cc
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 what	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 what	cop
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 talked	parataxis
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 said	nsubj
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 what	acl:relcl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 away	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 away	punct
36	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 away	advmod
37	away	away	ADV	_	33 said	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 side	punct
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 side	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 side	det
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 side	amod
42	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 river	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 river	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 river	amod
46	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 side	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woman	punct
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 home	cop
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 home	det
50	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 One	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 One	det
53	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 One	amod
54	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 home	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 home	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	woman		This					tree rules
2	bring	past	grandmother	another basin of food	boy			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination basin=Theme
3	eat	past · progressive	boy	basin				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	talk	past	grandmother		boy			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
5	is a	present	this	the pleased old woman				tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	grandmother			the other side of the great river	away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	present		the home			of the Bad One	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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