The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 79

In that country the people are fond of the roots of bulrushes, which they think as good as onions, and one of the young men said that they had better collect some of the roots and carry them back to the camp.

Who acts: people, one · What happens: be, think, say, have, collect, carry back · To what, where: country, bulrushes, some, people, camp · 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 (people, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fond	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 people	det
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fond	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	cop
7	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 roots	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roots	det
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fond	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bulrushes	case
12	bulrushes	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roots	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 think	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 think	obj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 think	nsubj
16	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 bulrushes	acl:relcl
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 think	ccomp
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 onions	case
20	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 good	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 said	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 men	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 men	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 men	amod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 one	nmod
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fond	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 had	xcomp
33	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 collect	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 roots	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 roots	det
37	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 some	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 carry	cc
39	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 collect	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carry	obj
41	back	back	ADV	_	39 carry	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 camp	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 camp	det
44	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carry	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the people		that country	of the roots of bulrushes; fond property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	people	bulrushes			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	one of the young men				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	people			good property	tree rules
5	collect	infinitive	people not said here	some			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
6	carry back	infinitive	people not said here	people	the camp		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to camp=Destination

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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