The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 117

Unseen by the witch, the frog's mother fastened one end of the magic line about her, and whispered to the little boy to hold fast the other.

Who acts: mother · What happens: fasten, whisper, hold · To what, where: one end, little boy, other

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (mother), 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	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fastened	advcl
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 witch	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Unseen	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fastened	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frog	det
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 frog	case
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fastened	nsubj
10	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 end	nummod
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fastened	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 line	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 line	det
15	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 line	amod
16	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 end	nmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 line	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whispered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whispered	cc
21	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fastened	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 boy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 boy	amod
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 whispered	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 hold	mark
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 whispered	advcl
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hold	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hold	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fasten	past	the frog's mother	one end of the magic line about wife			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
2	whisper speech: assert	past	the frog's mother not said here		the little boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient
3	hold	to-infinitive	the frog's mother not said here	the other		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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 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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