The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 46

When they reached the hut where Ball-Carrier had fasted so many years ago, the old woman spoke for the first time since they had started on their way.

Who acts: witches, old woman · What happens: reach, fast, speak, start · To what, where: hut, Ball, way · 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 (witches, old woman), 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	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spoke	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 fasted	advmod
7	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fasted	nsubj:pass
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Carrier	punct
9	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ball	conj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fasted	aux
11	fasted	fast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hut	acl:relcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ago	obl:unmarked
15	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 reached	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	nsubj
20	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spoke	obl
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 started	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 started	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 started	aux
28	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 spoke	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 way	nmod:poss
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 started	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	witches = witch	the hut			ago property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hut=Theme
2	fast	past · perfect · passive		Ball and Carrier				tree rules
3	speak speech: other	past	the old woman			time		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	start	past · perfect	witches = witch		witches's way			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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