The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 110

As she found she could get no help from her husband the woman took a large knife and cut the cords which bound the sacks on to the animals’ backs.

Who acts: company, woman, cords · What happens: find, get, take, cut, bound on · To what, where: help, large knife, cords, sacks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, woman, cords), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 found	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 help	det
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 husband	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 knife	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knife	amod
17	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cords	det
21	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 bound	nsubj
23	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cords	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sacks	det
25	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bound	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	23 bound	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	31 backs	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 animals	det
29	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 backs	nmod:poss
30	’	's	PART	_	29 animals	case
31	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bound	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	company			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	could	company	no help	from company's husband	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from husband=Source
3	take	past	the woman	a large knife		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	cut	past	the woman not said here	the cords		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cord=Product
5	bound on	present	the cords	the sacks	to the animals's backs	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sack=Theme

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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