The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 1

By-and-by some travellers came past, and the chief among them asked leave to marry Ball-Carrier’s daughter.

Who acts: chief · What happens: come, ask, leave, marry · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 travellers	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 travellers	det
7	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	obl
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	past	past	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chief	det
13	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	nsubj
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chief	nmod
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 leave	xcomp
20	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Carrier	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Ball	punct
22	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Carrier	case
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past			by some travellers; past property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by traveller=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the chief among travellers			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	infinitive				tree rules
4	marry	to-infinitive		Ball Carrier's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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