The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 87

At last he built himself a hut, and filled it with skins for seats, and made it as comfortable as any hut for miles round; and when it was quite finished he looked about among the young women to see which of them he should ask to be his wife.

Who acts: kind · What happens: build, fill, make, finish, look, see · To what, where: kind, last, hut, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 built	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 filled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 filled	cc
10	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 filled	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 skins	case
13	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 filled	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 seats	case
15	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 skins	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	obj
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 comfortable	advmod
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 made	xcomp
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 hut	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 hut	det
24	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 miles	case
26	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hut	nmod
27	round	round	ADV	_	26 miles	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 finished	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 finished	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 finished	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 finished	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 finished	aux:pass
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 finished	advmod
34	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 looked	advcl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 looked	nsubj
36	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 built	conj
37	about	about	ADV	_	36 looked	advmod
38	among	among	ADP	_	41 women	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 women	det
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 women	amod
41	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 looked	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 see	mark
43	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 looked	advcl
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 ask	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 them	case
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 ask	obl
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 ask	nsubj
48	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 ask	aux
49	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 see	ccomp
50	to	to	PART	_	53 wife	mark
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 wife	cop
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 wife	nmod:poss
53	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 ask	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past	kind	kind	last		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary hut=Product
2	fill	past	kind not said here	hut		with skins for seats	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with skin=Instrument
3	make	past	kind not said here	hut		as any hut for miles; comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	finish	past · passive		hut			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	look	past	kind			among the young women; about property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among woman=Theme
6	see	to-infinitive	kind not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	ask speech: ask	should	kind			of Turtle	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
8	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		kind's wife			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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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