The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 68

Kneeling on the grass, the man and his wife made a cup of their hands and drank the milk from it.

Who acts: man · What happens: kneel, make, drink · To what, where: grass, cup, milk

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	Kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 made	advcl
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kneeling	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kneeling	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wife	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cup	det
13	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cup	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drank	cc
18	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 milk	det
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 drank	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drank	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	kneel	gerund	the man and Koane's wife not said here		the grass	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	make	past	the man and Koane's wife	a cup of men's hands		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Product
3	drink	past	the man and Koane's wife not said here	the milk	Milk	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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 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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