The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 69

Some of the elder wolves brought out some cedar bands, which they always carried wound round their bodies, but the mink laughed scornfully at the sight of them.

Who acts: elder wolves, bands, mink · What happens: bring out, carry, laugh, sight · To what, where: cedar bands, sight, bands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder wolves, bands, mink), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
4	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wolves	amod
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Some	nmod
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wolves	acl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 brought	compound:prt
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bands	det
9	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bands	compound
10	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brought	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 carried	obj
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carried	nsubj
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 carried	advmod
15	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bands	parataxis
16	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obj
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 bodies	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bodies	nmod:poss
19	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 carried	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 laughed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 laughed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 mink	det
23	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laughed	nsubj
24	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 carried	conj
25	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	_	24 laughed	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 sight	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sight	det
28	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 laughed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sight	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Some	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring out	participle	the elder wolves not said here	some cedar bands			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent band=Patient
2	carry	past	bands = band	some cedar bands		round bands's bodies; always property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme which=Beneficiary wound=Value
3	laugh	past	the mink		the sight of bands	scornfully property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	sight			bands = band			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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