The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 58

She took Pivi into a shed where she kept her fruit laid him on a bed of mats, and made him as comfortable as she could, and attended to his broken leg without cutting off the flesh round the bone, as these people usually do.

Who acts: woman, fruit, people · What happens: take, keep, lay, make, attend, break · To what, where: Pivi, shed, Kabo, bed, flesh

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, fruit, people), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 shed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shed	det
6	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 kept	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	advcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fruit	nmod:poss
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	nsubj
12	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 laid	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bed	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bed	det
16	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laid	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 mats	case
18	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bed	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obj
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 comfortable	advmod
24	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 made	xcomp
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 comfortable	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 attended	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 attended	cc
30	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 leg	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 leg	nmod:poss
33	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 leg	amod
34	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 attended	obl
35	without	without	SCONJ	_	36 cutting	mark
36	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 attended	advcl
37	off	off	ADP	_	36 cutting	compound:prt
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flesh	det
39	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cutting	obj
40	round	round	ADP	_	42 bone	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bone	det
42	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cutting	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 do	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 do	mark
45	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 people	det
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 do	nsubj
47	usually	usually	ADV	_	48 do	advmod
48	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 attended	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	woman		Pivi			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument pivi=Destination
2	keep	past	woman			a shed		tree rules
3	lay	past	woman's fruit	Kabo		a bed of mats		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on bed=Destination
4	make	past	woman not said here	Kabo			comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
5	attend	past	woman not said here				to Kabo's broken leg	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to leg=Theme
6	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	cut off	gerund	woman not said here	the flesh			round the bone	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector flesh=Eventuality
8	do	present	this people				usually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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.

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