The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 33

So he slowly broke the seal, and untied the strings, and, behold, a heap of burnt bones lay before him!

Who acts: harm, heap · What happens: break, untie, lay · To what, where: seal, strings

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (harm, heap), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 broke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 broke	advmod
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seal	det
6	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 untied	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 untied	cc
9	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strings	det
11	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 untied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 behold	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 behold	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 behold	punct
15	behold	behold	INTJ	_	4 broke	discourse
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lay	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 heap	det
18	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lay	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 bones	case
20	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bones	amod
21	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 heap	nmod
22	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lay	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	harm	the seal		slowly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Patient
2	untie	past	harm not said here	the strings			vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
3	lay	present	a heap of burnt bones		before harm		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination

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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