The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 19

From one of these he cut himself a bow, which he strung with a piece of cord that had been left lying about the huts.

Who acts: comrade, bow, cord · What happens: cut, string, leave, lie · To what, where: comrade, cord

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrade, bow, cord), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 cut	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 these	case
4	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 one	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 cut	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bow	det
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 strung	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 strung	nsubj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strung	nsubj
13	strung	string	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bow	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 piece	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 piece	det
16	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 strung	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 cord	case
18	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 piece	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 left	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 left	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 left	aux:pass
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 cord	acl:relcl
23	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 left	xcomp
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 huts	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 huts	det
26	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lying	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut	past	comrade	comrade	from one of these	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary bow=Product from one=Material
2	string	past	a bow		with a piece of cord	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with piece=Theme
3	leave	past · perfect · passive		cord		tree rules
4	lie	gerund	cord not said here		about the huts	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about hut=Location

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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