The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 9

Ferko fell fast asleep, but the other two remained awake, and the eldest said to the second brother, ‘What do you say to doing our brother Ferko some harm?

Who acts: Ferko, other two, eldest, you · What happens: fall, remain, say, do · To what, where: second brother, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, other two, eldest, you), 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	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fell	advmod
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 remained	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 remained	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 two	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 two	amod
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 remained	nsubj
10	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	parataxis
11	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remained	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eldest	det
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fell	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 brother	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brother	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 brother	amod
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 say	obj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	parataxis
27	to	to	SCONJ	_	28 doing	mark
28	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 say	ccomp
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doing	obj
31	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 doing	obj
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 harm	det
33	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 doing	obj
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Ferko			asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remain	participle	the other two			awake property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	participle	the eldest		the second brother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present · do-support	you				tree rules
5	do	gerund		our brother			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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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