The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 5

They looked at it with dismay, and the oldest among them put their heads together to see what was to be done.

Who acts: miles, oldest · What happens: look, put, see, do · To what, where: heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (miles, oldest), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 dismay	case
6	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oldest	det
10	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 put	nsubj
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 oldest	nmod
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heads	nmod:poss
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obj
16	together	together	ADV	_	13 put	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 put	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 done	obj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux:pass
21	to	to	PART	_	23 done	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 done	aux:pass
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 see	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	miles = mile		with dismay; at path	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	put	past	the oldest among miles	miles's heads	together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
3	see	to-infinitive	the oldest among miles not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	past · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality

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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