The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 73

When they had walked on a little farther they came to a brook which ran through a green meadow, and there the younger said that they ought to christen each other.

Who acts: brothers, brook, younger · What happens: walk, come, run, say, christen · To what, where: brook, green meadow, each · 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 (brothers, brook, younger), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 walked	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	aux
4	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 farther	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 farther	obl
8	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 walked	obl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 brook	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 brook	det
13	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brook	acl:relcl
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 meadow	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 meadow	det
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meadow	amod
19	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 said	expl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 said	det
24	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 christen	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 christen	nsubj
28	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 christen	aux
29	to	to	PART	_	30 christen	mark
30	christen	christen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 christen	obj
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	walk	past · perfect	brothers = brother			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on far=Trajectory
2	come	past	brothers = brother		a brook	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_Location
3	run	past	a brook		a green meadow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through meadow=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	younger		there	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	christen	ought	brothers = brother	each		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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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