The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 2

The mother said she must have a little time to think over it, as her daughter was still very young; so it was settled that the man should go away for a month with his friends, and then come back to see if the girl was willing.

Who acts: mother, daughter, man, girl · What happens: say, have, think, be, settle, go away · To what, where: it · 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 (mother, daughter, man, girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 think	mark
11	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 time	acl
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 think	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 young	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 young	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 young	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 young	cop
19	still	still	ADV	_	21 young	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 young	advmod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 think	ccomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 settled	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 settled	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 settled	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 settled	aux:pass
26	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 settled	ccomp
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 month	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 month	det
35	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 friends	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 friends	nmod:poss
38	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 go	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 come	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 come	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 come	advmod
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
43	back	back	ADV	_	42 come	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 see	mark
45	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 come	advcl
46	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 willing	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 girl	det
48	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 willing	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 willing	cop
50	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 see	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	must	mother			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	mother not said here		it			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	mother's daughter			still	young property	tree rules
5	settle	past · passive		it				tree rules
6	go away	should	the man			month	with man's friends; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with friend=Beneficiary
7	come back	infinitive				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the girl				willing property	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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