The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 98

Then she fastened the mask on her daughter, flung over her shoulders a velvet cloak, which the princess had let fall, and finally arranged a lace veil over her head.

Who acts: woman · What happens: fasten, fling, let, arrange · To what, where: mask, daughter, shoulders, princess, lace veil, head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 fastened	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fastened	nsubj
3	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mask	det
5	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastened	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 daughter	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fastened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flung	punct
10	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 daughter	acl
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 shoulders	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shoulders	nmod:poss
13	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flung	obl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cloak	det
15	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cloak	compound
16	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shoulders	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 let	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 princess	det
20	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 let	aux
22	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cloak	acl:relcl
23	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 let	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 arranged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 arranged	cc
26	finally	finally	ADV	_	27 arranged	advmod
27	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fastened	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 veil	det
29	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 veil	compound
30	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arranged	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 arranged	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	woman	the mask		then	on woman's daughter	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent mask=Patient on daughter=Co-Patient
2	fling	participle		woman's daughter not said here	woman's shoulders			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination
3	let	past · perfect · passive		the princess				tree rules
4	arrange	past	woman not said here	a lace veil	woman's head		finally property	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent veil=Theme over head=Destination

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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