The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 80

And the youth whispered to the hermit, ‘Good father, before we were four, and now we are five.’

Who acts: youth, we · What happens: whisper, be · To what, where: hermit, four, five

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, we), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 whispered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	nsubj
4	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 hermit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hermit	det
7	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whispered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
10	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 father	amod
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hermit	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 four	punct
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 four	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 four	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 four	cop
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 whispered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 five	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 five	cc
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 five	advmod
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 five	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 five	cop
22	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 whispered	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 whispered	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the youth		the hermit and Good father		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hermit=Recipient
2	is a	past	we	four			tree rules
3	is a	present	we	five		now	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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