The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 76
Instead, he went outside and brought in two sheepskins, which he stained red and sent for a blacksmith to forge some iron rings.
Who acts: Thakane, two sheepskins · What happens: go, bring, stain, send, forge · To what, where: two sheepskins, red, iron rings
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 (Thakane, two sheepskins), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sheepskins | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sheepskins | nummod |
| 10 | sheepskins | sheepskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stained | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stained | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stained | nsubj |
| 14 | stained | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sheepskins | acl:relcl |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stained | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 blacksmith | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 blacksmith | det |
| 20 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 forge | mark |
| 22 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sent | advcl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 rings | det |
| 24 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rings | compound |
| 25 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 forge | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Thakane | instead, outside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | Thakane not said here | two sheepskins | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stain | past | two sheepskins | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | send | participle · passive | red | for a blacksmith | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | forge | to-infinitive | some iron rings | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Product |
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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