The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 75

Now the young wild cat had a lovely golden ball, so beautiful that you could hardly look at it except through a piece of smoked glass, and he kept it hidden in the thick fur muff that went round his neck.

Who acts: young wild cat, you, Neuislandischen, ball, thick fur muff · What happens: have, look, smoke, keep, hide, go · To what, where: lovely golden ball, ball, thick fur muff, neck

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 (young wild cat, you, Neuislandischen, ball), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 had	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beautiful	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 look	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 look	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 look	aux
17	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 look	advmod
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 beautiful	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	except	except	ADP	_	24 piece	case
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 piece	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 piece	det
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 look	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 glass	case
26	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 glass	amod
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kept	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kept	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kept	nsubj
31	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kept	obj
33	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 kept	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	38 muff	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 muff	det
36	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 muff	amod
37	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 muff	compound
38	muff	muff	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hidden	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 muff	acl:relcl
41	round	round	ADP	_	43 neck	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 neck	nmod:poss
43	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the young wild cat	a lovely golden ball		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient
2	look	could	you				except a piece of smoked glass; at ball; hardly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	smoke	participle						vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	past	Neuislandischen	ball				tree rules
5	hide	participle	ball not said here		the thick fur muff			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in muff=Location
6	go	past	the thick fur muff		Neuislandischen's neck			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round neck=Initial_Location

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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