The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 72

He marked her words, though she knew it not, and they taught him where his brother was, and what had befallen him.

Who acts: light, witch, hearts, brother · What happens: mark, not know, teach, be, befall, word · To what, where: words, word, light

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 (light, witch, hearts, brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 marked	nsubj
2	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 words	nmod:poss
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 marked	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knew	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 knew	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	nsubj
8	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marked	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knew	obj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 knew	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taught	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 taught	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taught	nsubj
14	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 marked	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 taught	obj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 was	advmod
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 taught	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 befallen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 befallen	cc
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 befallen	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 befallen	aux
24	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 marked	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 befallen	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 marked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mark	past	light	witch's words		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Destination
2	not know	past	witch	word		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	teach speech: other	past	hearts = heart		light	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	be	past	light's brother			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	befall	past · perfect · passive		light		tree rules
6	word		witch			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 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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