The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 64

When the younger brother heard these words he said to himself, ‘So it was here that my brother lived, and this beautiful woman is my sister-in-law,’ but he kept silence, and let her believe he was indeed her husband.

Who acts: younger brother, brother, word, beautiful woman, woman · What happens: hear, say, be, live, keep, let · To what, where: words, brother, sister, law, silence, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (younger brother, brother, word, beautiful woman), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heard	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 words	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 here	punct
14	So	so	ADV	_	17 here	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 here	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 here	cop
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 heard	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 lived	mark
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 here	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sister	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sister	cc
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 woman	det
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sister	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sister	cop
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sister	nmod:poss
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	parataxis
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 law	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 law	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 in	punct
33	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sister	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sister	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 sister	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 kept	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kept	nsubj
38	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
39	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kept	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 let	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 let	cc
42	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
43	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 let	obj
44	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 let	xcomp
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 husband	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 husband	cop
47	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	49 husband	advmod
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 husband	nmod:poss
49	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 believe	ccomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the younger brother	this words				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	brother	this words not said here	brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to himself=Recipient
3	is	past	word				here property	tree rules
4	live	past	my brother					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	this beautiful woman	my sister		law		tree rules
6	keep	past	brother	silence				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
7	let	infinitive	the younger brother not said here	woman				tree rules
8	believe	infinitive	woman not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
9	is a	past	brother	woman's husband			indeed property	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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