The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 41

His council consisted of the twelve wisest men in the country, whose long beards flowed down over their breasts, each of whom was as learned as a whole college.

Who acts: council · What happens: consist, flow down, learn · To what, where: country, long beards, breasts, each

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (council), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 council	nmod:poss
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	nsubj
3	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 men	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
6	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 men	nummod
7	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consisted	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 consisted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beards	punct
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 beards	nmod:poss
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beards	amod
15	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 country	appos
16	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 beards	acl
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 flowed	compound:prt
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 breasts	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 breasts	nmod:poss
20	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flowed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 learned	punct
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 learned	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 whom	case
24	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 learned	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 learned	aux:pass
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 learned	advmod
27	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 consisted	parataxis
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 college	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 college	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 college	amod
31	college	college	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 learned	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consist	past	Archidej's council		the country	of the twelve wisest men	tree rules
2	flow down	participle		the country's long beards not said here	men's breasts		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over breast=Location
3	learn	past · passive		each		as a whole college	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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