The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 40

“Bring the best wine you have got, and two glasses, good mother,” he said as he entered, “and if you are fond of fish there is enough here to feed the house.

Who acts: you, Father · What happens: bring, get, say, enter, be, feed · To what, where: best wine, house · 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 (you, Father), 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	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wine	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 wine	amod
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bring	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wine	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 glasses	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glasses	cc
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 glasses	nummod
12	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Bring	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mother	punct
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mother	amod
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glasses	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 entered	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 entered	nsubj
22	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fond	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 fond	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fond	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 fond	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 fond	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fond	cop
29	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 fish	case
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fond	obl
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 enough	expl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 enough	cop
34	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fond	conj
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 enough	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 feed	mark
37	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 enough	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 house	det
39	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 feed	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	infinitive		the best wine		two glasses and good mother obl	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wine=Theme
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	you	the best wine not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	enter	past	Father				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you			of fish; fond property	tree rules
6	is in a quote	present	you not said here		here; there	enough property	tree rules
7	feed in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the house			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Recipient

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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