The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 63

The brothers hurried on, without needing to be told twice, ‘for,’ thought they, ‘he has no money, and of course there will be a row.’

Who acts: brothers, ’, Ciccu · What happens: hurry, need, tell, think, have, be · To what, where: brothers, money, row · 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, ’, 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 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hurried	nsubj
3	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 hurried	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 needing	punct
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 needing	mark
7	needing	need	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hurried	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 told	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 needing	xcomp
11	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 told	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct
13	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	17 thought	cc
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 thought	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 for	punct
16	’	'	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 thought	nsubj
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hurried	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thought	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 money	det
24	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 row	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 row	cc
27	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	31 be	advmod
28	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 of	fixed
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 be	expl
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 row	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 row	det
33	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hurried	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 hurried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hurry	past	the brothers			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	gerund	the brothers not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	the brothers not said here		twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	think speech: other	past	’	brothers = brother		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
5	have	present	Ciccu	no money		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
6	is a	infinitive		a row		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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