The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 128

His loin-cloth was fashioned of twelve skins of beasts, and was bound round his waist by a chain of which each link was as big as an elephant’s thigh.

Who acts: loin cloth, chain, link · What happens: be, bind

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 (loin cloth, chain, link), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 cloth	nmod:poss
2	loin	loin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cloth	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 loin	punct
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fashioned	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fashioned	cop
6	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 skins	case
8	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 skins	nummod
9	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fashioned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 beasts	case
11	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 skins	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bound	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bound	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bound	aux:pass
15	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fashioned	conj
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 waist	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 waist	nmod:poss
18	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bound	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 chain	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 chain	det
21	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bound	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 big	obl
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 link	det
25	link	link	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 big	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 big	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 chain	amod
29	as	as	ADP	_	33 thigh	case
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 elephant	det
31	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 thigh	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 elephant	case
33	thigh	thigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 big	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fashioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	tee's loin cloth	of twelve skins of beasts; fashioned property	tree rules
2	bind	past · passive	a chain	round tee's waist	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	each link	of a chain; as a elephant's thigh; big property	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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