The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 29

She grew very curious, and said to Cassim when he came home: “Cassim, your brother is richer than you.

Who acts: wife, Cassim · What happens: grow, say, come, be · To what, where: Cassim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Cassim), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 curious	advmod
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Cassim	case
9	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	advcl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 richer	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 richer	punct
16	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 richer	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 richer	punct
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brother	nmod:poss
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 richer	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 richer	cop
21	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 came	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 richer	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	wife		curious property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	wife not said here	Cassim		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cassim=Recipient
3	come	past	Cassim		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	Cassim		than Cassim; rich property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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