The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 12

As for the ladies, the girls twisted silken scarves round his plumed hat, and their mothers knitted him gloves of all colours, to keep out the cold.

Who acts: girls, mothers · What happens: twist, plume, knit, keep out · To what, where: silken scarves, plumed hat, gloves, Tiidu, cold

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, mothers), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 ladies	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ladies	det
4	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twisted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ladies	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girls	det
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twisted	nsubj
8	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 scarves	amod
10	scarves	scarf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 twisted	obj
11	round	round	ADP	_	14 hat	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hat	nmod:poss
13	plumed	plume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hat	amod
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twisted	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knitted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knitted	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mothers	nmod:poss
18	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 knitted	nsubj
19	knitted	knit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 twisted	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knitted	obj
21	gloves	glove	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 knitted	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 colours	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 colours	det
24	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gloves	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keep	punct
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 knitted	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 keep	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cold	det
30	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 keep	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 twisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	twist	past	the girls	silken scarves		Tiidu's plumed hat	as the ladies	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent scarf=Theme round hat=Trajectory
2	plume	participle						tree rules
3	knit	past	girls's mothers	gloves of all colours	Tiidu			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary glove=Product
4	keep out	to-infinitive	girls's mothers not said here	the cold				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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