The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 63

When things had reached this pass, the brownie told the young man that he had better ask Barbaik to marry him, and this time the girl did not turn rudely away, but listened patiently to the end.

Who acts: brownie, girl · What happens: reach, tell, have, ask, marry, not turn away · To what, where: things, young man, Barbaik, Brownie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brownie, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reached	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	advcl
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pass	det
6	pass	pass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brownie	det
9	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 had	xcomp
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	xcomp
19	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ask	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 marry	mark
21	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ask	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 marry	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 turn	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 turn	cc
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obl:unmarked
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 girl	det
28	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 turn	advmod
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	conj
32	rudely	rudely	ADV	_	31 turn	advmod
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 turn	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 listened	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 listened	cc
36	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	parataxis
37	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	36 listened	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 end	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 end	det
40	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 listened	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past · perfect · passive		things				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pass=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the brownie		the young man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	Brownie				good property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Brownie not said here		Barbaik			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent barbaik=Recipient clause=Topic
5	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Brownie not said here	Brownie				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	not turn away	past · do-support	the girl			time	away, rudely property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	listen	past				to the end	patiently property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to end=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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