The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 55

Then he cut off the tails and tied them together with a piece of cord, and swinging the bundle over his back, he returned to the place where they should have been feeding.

Who acts: patience, tails · What happens: cut off, tie, swing, return, feed · To what, where: tails, bundle, back

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (patience, tails), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cut	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 cut	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tails	det
6	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tied	cc
8	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tied	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	8 tied	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 piece	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 piece	det
13	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 cord	case
15	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 piece	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swinging	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swinging	cc
18	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cut	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bundle	det
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swinging	obj
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 back	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 back	nmod:poss
23	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swinging	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 returned	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 returned	nsubj
26	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 place	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 place	det
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 returned	obl
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 feeding	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 feeding	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 feeding	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 feeding	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 feeding	aux
35	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 place	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past	patience	the tails		then		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tail=Eventuality
2	tie	past	patience not said here	tails = tail			with a piece of cord; together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with piece=Co-Patient
3	swing	gerund	patience not said here	the bundle	patience's back			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme over back=Trajectory
4	return	past	patience				to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
5	feed	should · perfect · progressive	tails = tail					vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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