The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 123

Then he took a handful of earth and cast it on his collar, and said: “O earth! be thou my grave; and O vest! tee thou my winding-sheet!”

Who acts: thousand, earth, vest tee · What happens: take, cast, say, be, sheet · To what, where: handful, collar, thou · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand, earth, vest tee), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 handful	det
5	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 earth	case
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handful	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cast	cc
9	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cast	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 collar	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 collar	nmod:poss
13	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cast	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 earth	punct
19	O	o	INTJ	_	20 earth	discourse
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thou	nsubj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 earth	punct
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 thou	cop
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 said	ccomp
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grave	nmod:poss
25	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thou	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 sheet	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sheet	cc
28	O	o	PUNCT	_	29 vest	punct
29	vest	vest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tee	compound
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 vest	punct
31	tee	tee	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sheet	nsubj
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 sheet	nsubj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 sheet	nmod:poss
34	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sheet	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 winding	punct
36	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 sheet	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 sheet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	thousand	a handful of earth		then	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent handful=Theme clause=Attribute
2	cast	present	thousand not said here	handful	thousand's collar		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on collar=Destination
3	say speech: express	past	thousand not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	infinitive	earth	thou			tree rules
5	sheet in a quote		vest tee				tree rules

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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