The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 14

Mihr-afruz was told that one man more had staked his head on her question, and that this was one who said he knew the answer.

Who acts: this, King, daughter · What happens: tell, stake, be, say, know, question · To what, where: Mihr afruz, head, question, one, answer · 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, King, daughter), 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	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 afruz	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mihr	punct
3	afruz	afruz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 staked	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 man	nummod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl:unmarked
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 staked	advmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 staked	aux
11	staked	stake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 staked	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 question	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 question	nmod:poss
16	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 staked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 one	mark
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 one	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 said	advcl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 answer	det
28	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 knew	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Mihr afruz		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stake	past · perfect		King's head	daughter's question	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	is a	past	this	one		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	know	past	King	the answer		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus
6	question		daughter			nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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