The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 103

The brothers told him how much Esben had done, and how he had saved their lives, and from that time forward he was no longer the butt of the rest at home.

Who acts: brothers, much Esben, twelve · What happens: tell, do, save, be · To what, where: twelve, lives, butt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, much Esben, twelve), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Esben	amod
7	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 done	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saved	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saved	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saved	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saved	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 saved	aux
15	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 told	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lives	nmod:poss
17	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 saved	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 butt	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 butt	cc
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 butt	obl
23	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 time	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 butt	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 butt	cop
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 butt	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 butt	det
29	butt	butt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 rest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rest	det
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 butt	nmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 home	case
34	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rest	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the brothers		twelve			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past · perfect	much Esben					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	save	past · perfect	twelve	brothers's lives				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	is a	past	twelve	the butt		time	of the rest at home; long 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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