The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 48

And taking some strings of the magic grass which the giant had carelessly heaped on them, she bound the feet on to the legs above.

Who acts: Kisa · What happens: take, heap, bind · To what, where: strings, giant, feet, legs

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kisa), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 taking	cc
2	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 bound	csubj
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 strings	det
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taking	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grass	det
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grass	compound
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strings	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 heaped	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heaped	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heaped	aux
13	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	14 heaped	advmod
14	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grass	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heaped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 taking	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bound	nsubj
19	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 feet	det
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bound	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 legs	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 on	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 legs	det
25	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 bound	obl
26	above	above	ADV	_	19 bound	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		some strings of the magic grass			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	heap	past · perfect · passive		the giant		on feet = foot; carelessly property	tree rules
3	bind	past	Kisa	the feet	the legs	above property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=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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