The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 71

“Oh, it is ragged enough,” answered they, “but it was left us by our father, and if any man wraps it round him no one can see him; and we each want it for our own.”

Who acts: cloth, sails, father, man, one, we · What happens: be, answer, leave, wrap, see, want · To what, where: cloth, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, sails, father, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 ragged	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 ragged	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ragged	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ragged	cop
6	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answered	parataxis
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 ragged	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ragged	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 ragged	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 left	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 left	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 left	aux:pass
17	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 answered	parataxis
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 left	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 see	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 see	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wraps	mark
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wraps	nsubj
27	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 see	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wraps	obj
29	round	round	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wraps	obl
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 see	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 see	aux
34	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 left	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 see	obj
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 want	cc
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 want	nsubj
39	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	40 want	advmod
40	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	parataxis
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 want	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 own	case
43	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 own	nmod:poss
44	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 want	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 want	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	cloth		enough, ragged property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	sails = sail			tree rules
3	leave in a quote	past · passive	our father	cloth		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme we=Attribute
4	wrap a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	any man	cloth	round father	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	see in a quote	can	no one	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	want in a quote	present	we	cloth	for our own	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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