The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 51

A crowd gathered round her, and held her horns so that she could not use them, and, like the horse, she was shut in the stable, and only let out in the mornings, when a long rope was tied round her head, and she was fastened to a stake in a grassy meadow.

Who acts: crowd · What happens: gather, hold, not use, shut, let out, tie · To what, where: horns, crowd, stable, long rope, grassy meadow

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 (crowd), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gathered	nsubj
3	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	round	round	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gathered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 held	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 held	cc
8	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horns	nmod:poss
10	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 held	obj
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 use	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 use	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 use	advmod
16	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 held	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shut	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shut	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 and	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 horse	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shut	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 horse	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shut	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shut	aux:pass
27	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gathered	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 stable	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stable	det
30	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shut	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 let	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 let	cc
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 let	advmod
34	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 gathered	parataxis
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 let	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 mornings	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mornings	det
38	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 let	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tied	punct
40	when	when	SCONJ	_	45 tied	mark
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rope	det
42	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 rope	amod
43	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tied	nsubj:pass
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 tied	aux:pass
45	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 let	parataxis
46	round	round	ADP	_	48 head	case
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 head	nmod:poss
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tied	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fastened	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 fastened	cc
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 fastened	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 fastened	aux:pass
53	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 gathered	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 stake	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 stake	det
56	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fastened	obl
57	in	in	ADP	_	60 meadow	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 meadow	det
59	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 meadow	amod
60	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fastened	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	a crowd				round cow	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	past	a crowd not said here	cow's horns				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
3	not use	could	crowd	horns = horn				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	shut	past · passive		crowd	the stable		like the horse	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	let out	infinitive				morning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
6	tie	past · passive		a long rope			round cow's head	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	fasten	past · passive		crowd	a grassy meadow		to a stake	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to stake=Co-Patient

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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