The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 77
The rings were then passed over Thakane’s arms and legs and neck, and the skins fastened on her before and behind.
Who acts: skins · What happens: pass, fasten · To what, where: rings, arms
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 (skins), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rings | det |
| 2 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 passed | advmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 7 | Thakane | Thakane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Thakane | case |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 legs | cc |
| 11 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 arms | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 neck | cc |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arms | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fastened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fastened | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 skins | det |
| 17 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fastened | nsubj |
| 18 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fastened | obl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 18 fastened | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 behind | cc |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 before | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | the rings | Thakane's arms and legs and neck | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over arm=Destination | |||
| 2 | fasten | past | the skins | on Koumongoé; before property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on she=Co-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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