The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 99

Thakane was thankful indeed when she heard this, for she was very tired, and found the two skins fastened round her almost too heavy to carry.

Who acts: Thakane, ogre, two skins · What happens: be, hear, find, fasten, carry · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here

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, ogre, two 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	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thankful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	cop
3	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thankful	parataxis
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tired	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 tired	case
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tired	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tired	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 tired	advmod
14	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heard	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 skins	det
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 skins	nummod
20	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fastened	nsubj
21	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	ccomp
22	round	round	ADP	_	23 her	case
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fastened	obl
24	almost	almost	ADV	_	26 heavy	advmod
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 heavy	advmod
26	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fastened	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 carry	mark
28	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 heavy	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thankful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Thakane		thankful property	tree rules
2	hear	past	ogre	this	indeed property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	is	past	ogre		tired property	tree rules
4	find	past	ogre not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	fasten	past	the two skins		round ogre	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	carry	to-infinitive	the two skins not said here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/15/99/