The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 12

“It was just to chase away Care,” he said; but when he came out, hours and hours after, Care came out with him.

Who acts: church, Care · What happens: be, say, come out · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, Care), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 chase	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chase	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chase	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 chase	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 chase	mark
6	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 chase	advmod
8	Care	Care	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chase	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chase	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 chase	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	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 came	advcl
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hours	punct
20	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 came	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hours	cc
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hours	conj
23	after	after	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
25	Care	Care	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
27	out	out	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	church		away, chase property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Care			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come out	past	Care	hour	after, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	come out	past	Care		with Father; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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