The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 35

But when everything was ready, the youngest brother said to the others: ‘Now, brothers, who is going to lift this stone?’

Who acts: everything, youngest brother, brothers · What happens: be, say, go, lift · To what, where: stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, youngest brother, brothers), 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	_	10 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ready	advmod
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 brother	det
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 brother	amod
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 others	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 brothers	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 brothers	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brothers	punct
18	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 going	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 going	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 lift	mark
24	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 stone	det
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lift	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	everything		ready property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the youngest brother		to the others	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go	present · progressive	brothers			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	lift	to-infinitive	brothers not said here	this stone		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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