The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 40

When he came to the killing of the negroes, he said to the one who stood before them: “You, too, were present.”

Who acts: Prince, one · What happens: come, say, stand, be, kill · To what, where: killing, one, negroes · 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 (Prince, one), 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	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 killing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 killing	det
6	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 negroes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 negroes	det
9	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 killing	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 one	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 one	acl:relcl
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stood	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 You	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 You	punct
22	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 You	punct
24	too	too	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 present	punct
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 present	cop
27	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 present	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 present	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Prince			the killing of the negroes			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to killing=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Prince		the one				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic
3	stand	past	the one				before people		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
4	is in a quote	past						present property	tree rules
5	kill			the negroes					nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient

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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