The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 90

But she answered, ‘That can only be when Ciccu brings me the veil that I let fall on my way here.’

Who acts: wife, Ciccu, That, I, veil · What happens: answer, bring, be, let, fall · To what, where: me, veil, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Ciccu, That, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 veil	punct
5	‘	‘	ADP	_	6 That	case
6	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 veil	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 veil	aux
8	only	only	ADV	_	15 veil	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 veil	cop
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 brings	mark
11	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 brings	nsubj
12	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 veil	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 brings	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 veil	det
15	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	ccomp
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 let	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 let	nsubj
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 veil	acl:relcl
19	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	obl
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 fall	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 fall	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 veil	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	wife				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	present	Ciccu		me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	is a	can	That	the veil			tree rules
4	let	past	I	the veil			tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	the veil not said here			my way; here	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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