The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 102

The others agreed, and when they had found a man whom they could trust Ciccu told him the whole story.

Who acts: others, Ciccu · What happens: agree, find, trust, tell · To what, where: man, whole story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Ciccu), 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 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 found	cc
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 found	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 agreed	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 trust	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trust	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 trust	aux
15	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 man	acl:relcl
16	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj
17	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trust	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 story	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 story	amod
21	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the others			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past · perfect	others = other	a man		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	trust	could	others = other	a man		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	Ciccu	the whole story	man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic

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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