The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 24

He put all his belongings into their charge, and fastened his horse in their out-house.

Who acts: prince, drums · What happens: put, fasten, charge · To what, where: belongings, charge, horse, house

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 (prince, drums), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 belongings	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 belongings	nmod:poss
5	belongings	belonging	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 charge	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 charge	nmod:poss
8	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fastened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fastened	cc
11	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 horse	nmod:poss
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fastened	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
16	out	out	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 out	punct
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fastened	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put	past	prince	prince's belongings	drums's charge	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent belonging=Goal
2	fasten	past	prince not said here	prince's horse	drums's house	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
3	charge		drums = drum			nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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