The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 38

He drew it out to slip on the king's foot, and over the goat-skin he had rubbed a polish so white that the snow itself was not more dazzling.

Who acts: physician, snow · What happens: draw out, slip, rub, not be · To what, where: shoe, foot, polish, goat skin, more dazzling

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (physician, snow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 drew	compound:prt
5	to	to	PART	_	6 slip	mark
6	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drew	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 foot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foot	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 king	case
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 slip	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rubbed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rubbed	cc
14	over	over	ADP	_	18 skin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 skin	det
16	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skin	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 goat	punct
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rubbed	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 rubbed	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 rubbed	aux
21	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 drew	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 polish	det
23	polish	polish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rubbed	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 white	advmod
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 rubbed	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 dazzling	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 snow	det
28	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dazzling	nsubj
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	28 snow	nmod:unmarked
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dazzling	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 dazzling	advmod
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 dazzling	amod
33	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 white	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw out	past	physician	shoe			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	slip	to-infinitive	physician not said here		the king's foot		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	rub	past · perfect	physician	a polish	the goat skin	white property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent polish=Theme over skin=Destination
4	not is a	past	the snow shoe	more dazzling			tree rules

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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