The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 76

But the brownie, who was standing by, burst out laughing, and confessed that all the good offices she spoke of had been performed by him, for the sake of Jegu, but that now he had other business to do, and it was high time that she looked after her house herself.

Who acts: brownie, Barbaik, Jegu, business, high time · What happens: stand, burst out, laugh, confess, speak, perform · To what, where: good offices, other business, high time, Barbaik · 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, Barbaik, Jegu, business), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	15 confessed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brownie	det
3	brownie	brownie	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 confessed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 standing	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 standing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 standing	aux
7	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 brownie	acl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 burst	mark
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 by	punct
10	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 standing	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 burst	compound:prt
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 burst	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 confessed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 confessed	cc
15	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 performed	mark
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 offices	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 offices	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 offices	amod
20	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 performed	nsubj:pass
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spoke	nsubj
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 offices	acl:relcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 spoke	obl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 performed	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 performed	aux:pass
26	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 confessed	advcl
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 performed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sake	punct
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 sake	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sake	det
32	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 performed	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Jegu	case
34	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 sake	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 had	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 now	mark
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 had	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 confessed	conj
41	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 business	amod
42	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 do	mark
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 business	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 time	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 time	cc
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 time	nsubj
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 time	cop
49	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 time	amod
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obl
51	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 looked	nsubj
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 looked	nsubj
53	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 time	acl:relcl
54	after	after	ADP	_	56 house	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 house	nmod:poss
56	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 looked	obl
57	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	53 looked	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	the brownie			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	burst out	infinitive	the brownie not said here			tree rules
3	laugh	gerund	the brownie not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	confess	past	the brownie			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	past	Barbaik	all good offices not said here		tree rules
6	perform	past · perfect · passive	Brownie	all good offices		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
7	have	past	Jegu	other business	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient
8	do	to-infinitive	Jegu not said here	other business not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	business	high time		tree rules
10	look	past	high time	Barbaik	after Barbaik's house	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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