The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 104

He began busily to make his preparations, and took off his smart velvet coat, putting on instead one of green cloth, while he refused a beautiful bag which the queen offered him to hold his food, and slung a leather knapsack over his shoulders instead, just as he had seen other travellers do.

Who acts: least, queen, other travellers · What happens: begin, make, take off, put on, refuse, offer · To what, where: preparations, smart velvet coat, one, beautiful bag, least, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least, queen, other travellers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	busily	busily	ADV	_	2 began	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 preparations	nmod:poss
7	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 took	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 coat	nmod:poss
13	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 coat	amod
14	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coat	compound
15	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 putting	punct
17	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 putting	compound:prt
19	instead	instead	ADV	_	20 one	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 putting	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 cloth	case
22	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cloth	amod
23	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 refused	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 refused	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 refused	nsubj
27	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bag	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bag	amod
30	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 refused	obj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 offered	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 queen	det
33	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 offered	nsubj
34	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bag	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 offered	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 hold	mark
37	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 offered	advcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 food	nmod:poss
39	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hold	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 slung	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 slung	cc
42	slung	sling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 knapsack	det
44	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 knapsack	compound
45	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 slung	obj
46	over	over	ADP	_	48 shoulders	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 shoulders	nmod:poss
48	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 knapsack	nmod
49	instead	instead	ADV	_	42 slung	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 seen	punct
51	just	just	ADV	_	55 seen	advmod
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 seen	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 seen	nsubj
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 seen	aux
55	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 slung	parataxis
56	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 travellers	amod
57	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 do	nsubj
58	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 seen	ccomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	least				busily property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	make	to-infinitive	least not said here	least's preparations				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product
3	take off	past		least's smart velvet coat				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
4	put on	gerund		one of green cloth				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal
5	refuse	past	least	a beautiful bag				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme
6	offer	past	the queen	a beautiful bag	least			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal which=Theme
7	hold	to-infinitive	the queen not said here	least's food				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
8	sling	past		a leather knapsack		least's shoulders	instead property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme over shoulder=Destination
9	see	past · perfect	least					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	do	present	other travellers					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	prepare		least					nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=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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