The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 46

This evening he came as usual, and Renelde told him what Burchard had said.

Who acts: Guilbert, Renelde · What happens: come, tell, say · To what, where: Guilbert, Burchard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guilbert, Renelde), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 usual	case
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
9	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 said	obj
13	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 told	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Guilbert			evening	as usual	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Renelde		Guilbert			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Burchard				vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner

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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