The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 4

But what pleased him most was his long tail with a tuft at the end, which he lashed and switched proudly.

Who acts: end · What happens: be, lash, switch · To what, where: long tail

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 pleased	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 pleased	nsubj
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pleased	nsubj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 tail	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tail	cop
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tail	amod
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pleased	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tuft	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tuft	det
12	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 end	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 end	det
15	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tuft	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lashed	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lashed	nsubj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lashed	nsubj
19	lashed	lash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 end	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 switched	cc
21	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lashed	conj
22	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	21 switched	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		skin's long tail	with a tuft at the end	tree rules
2	lash	past	the end			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	switch	past	the end not said here		proudly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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