The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 102

Then he cut himself some arrows, each from a different tree, and winged with the feathers of four different birds.

Who acts: use · What happens: cut, wing · To what, where: use

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cut	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cut	nsubj
3	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 cut	obj
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 arrows	det
6	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 each	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 arrows	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 each	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 winged	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 winged	cc
15	winged	wing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cut	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 feathers	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feathers	det
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 winged	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 birds	case
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 birds	nummod
21	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 birds	amod
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 feathers	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	use	use			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary arrow=Product
2	wing	past	use not said here					with the feathers of four different birds	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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