The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 121

And when his brothers asked him what had happened he only answered, ‘When we have all three been I will tell you.’

Who acts: brothers, king, we, three · What happens: ask, happen, answer, have, be · To what, where: king, all, you · 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 (brothers, king, we, three), 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	_	12 answered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 brothers	nmod:poss
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 asked	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happened	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 happened	aux
9	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 asked	ccomp
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 answered	advmod
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
15	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 have	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 answered	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 have	obj
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 tell	nsubj
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 tell	cop
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tell	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 tell	aux
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 all	acl:relcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	king's brothers		king		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	king				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	we	all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
5	is	future · participle	three		you	tell 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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