The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 72

So the elder stood still and looked back, and when the younger had got up to him, and had told him that he was his brother, he said: ‘But now, let us sit down and see what kind of food our mother has given us,’ and that they did.

Who acts: elder, boy, us, brothers · What happens: stand, look back, get up, tell, be, say · To what, where: boy, brother, us, kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder, boy, us, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elder	det
3	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	advcl
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 looked	cc
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 looked	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 got	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 got	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 younger	det
13	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 got	advcl
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stood	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 got	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 got	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 told	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 told	aux
22	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stood	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 brother	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brother	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 brother	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
34	But	but	CCONJ	_	37 let	cc
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 let	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 now	punct
37	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 said	ccomp
38	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 let	obj
39	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 let	xcomp
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 sit	compound:prt
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 see	cc
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 sit	conj
43	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	44 kind	det
44	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 given	nsubj:pass
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 food	case
46	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 kind	nmod
47	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 mother	nmod:poss
48	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 given	nsubj:pass
49	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 given	aux
50	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 see	ccomp
51	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 given	iobj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 let	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 did	cc
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 did	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 did	nsubj
57	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	stand	past	the elder			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look back	past	the elder not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	get up	past · perfect			boy		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the elder not said here		boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a	past	boy	boy's brother			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	let	infinitive		us		now	tree rules
8	sit down	infinitive	us not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	see	infinitive	us not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	give	present · perfect · passive		what kind of food	us		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient we=Theme
11	do	past	brothers = brother				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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