The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 104

Makoma was very wroth, but he said nothing, and drawing his finger-nail across the hair (which was as thick and strong as palm rope) cut it, and set free the mountain-maker.

Who acts: Makoma, drawing · What happens: be, say, draw, cut, set · To what, where: nothing, finger nail, hair, nail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Makoma, drawing), 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	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wroth	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wroth	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 wroth	advmod
4	wroth	wroth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wroth	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
12	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 cut	csubj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nail	nmod:poss
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nail	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 finger	punct
16	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drawing	obj
17	across	across	ADP	_	19 hair	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hair	det
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drawing	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	24 thick	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 thick	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 thick	cop
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 thick	case
24	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 drawing	ccomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 strong	cc
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thick	conj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 rope	case
28	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rope	compound
29	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strong	obl
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 thick	punct
31	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wroth	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 cut	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 set	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 set	cc
35	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 cut	advcl
36	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 set	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 maker	det
38	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 maker	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 mountain	punct
40	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 free	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wroth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Makoma			wroth property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Makoma	nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	draw	gerund		Makoma's finger nail	the hair		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme
4	is	past				thick property	tree rules
5	be					as palm rope	tree rules
6	cut	past	drawing	nail			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
7	set	infinitive	drawing not said here			free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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