The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 57

As for the mouse, the Lapp threw a half-burnt stick after him, and though it was not enough to hurt him, his beautiful white skin was smeared all over with it, and all the washing in the world would not make him clean again.

Who acts: Lapp, ermine, washing, man · What happens: throw, burnt, not be, hurt, smear, not make · To what, where: burnt stick, man, beautiful white skin

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 (Lapp, ermine, washing, 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 mouse	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mouse	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Lapp	det
7	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stick	det
10	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 burnt	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 half	punct
12	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stick	amod
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 enough	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 enough	cc
18	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 enough	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 enough	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 enough	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 enough	advmod
22	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 threw	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hurt	mark
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 enough	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurt	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 smeared	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 skin	nmod:poss
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 skin	amod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 skin	amod
30	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 smeared	nsubj:pass
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 smeared	aux:pass
32	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 enough	conj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 over	advmod
34	over	over	ADV	_	32 smeared	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 smeared	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 make	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 make	cc
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 washing	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 washing	det
41	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 make	nsubj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 washing	nmod
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 make	aux
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 make	advmod
47	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 threw	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 make	obj
49	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 make	xcomp
50	again	again	ADV	_	49 clean	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the Lapp	a burnt stick	after man	as the mouse	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	burnt	participle					tree rules
3	not is	past	ermine			enough property	tree rules
4	hurt	to-infinitive	ermine not said here	man			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
5	smear	past · passive		man's beautiful white skin		with ermine; over property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with it=Theme
6	not make	would	all washing in the world	man			tree rules
7	not clean	infinitive	man not said here		again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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