The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 41

All his limbs seemed to draw together, and his body to become very short and round; his head grew quite tiny, and instead of his white skin he was covered with the richest, softest velvet.

Who acts: limbs, body, head · What happens: seem, draw together, become, grow, cover · To what, where: bee

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 (limbs, body, head), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 limbs	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 limbs	nmod:poss
3	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seemed	nsubj
4	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 draw	mark
6	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seemed	xcomp
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 draw	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 become	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 become	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 become	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 become	mark
13	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 draw	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 short	advmod
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 become	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 round	cc
17	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 short	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 grew	punct
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seemed	parataxis
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 tiny	advmod
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 covered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 covered	cc
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	30 skin	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 skin	nmod:poss
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 skin	amod
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 covered	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 covered	aux:pass
33	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 grew	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	39 velvet	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 velvet	det
36	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 velvet	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 richest	punct
38	softest	soft	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 velvet	amod
39	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	bee's limbs			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	draw together	to-infinitive	bee's limbs not said here		together property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	to-infinitive	bee's body		short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	grow	past	bee's head		tiny property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover	past · passive		bee	instead bee's white skin; with the richest softest velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with velvet=Theme

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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