The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 90

They then folded the skin up into a very small parcel, and the cat tucked it into his mane, for snakes’ skins can do all sorts of wonderful things, if you are lucky enough to have one of them.

Who acts: ears, cat, skins, you · What happens: fold up, tuck, do, be, have, sort · To what, where: skin, small parcel, mane, sorts, one, wonderful things

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 (ears, cat, skins, you), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 folded	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 folded	advmod
3	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folded	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 folded	compound:prt
7	into	into	ADP	_	11 parcel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 parcel	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 small	advmod
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 parcel	amod
11	parcel	parcel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 folded	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tucked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tucked	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cat	det
15	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tucked	nsubj
16	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 folded	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tucked	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 mane	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mane	nmod:poss
20	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tucked	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
23	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 skins	nmod:poss
24	’	's	PART	_	23 snakes	case
25	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tucked	advcl
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 sorts	det
29	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 things	case
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sorts	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lucky	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 lucky	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 lucky	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 lucky	cop
37	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 do	conj
38	enough	enough	ADV	_	37 lucky	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 have	mark
40	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 lucky	advcl
41	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 have	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 one	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fold up	past	ears = ear	the skin		then	into a small parcel result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent skin=Patient into parcel=Result
2	tuck	past	the cat	skin	snake's mane			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mane=Destination
3	do	can	snakes's skins	all sorts of wonderful things				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Eventuality
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you				enough, lucky property	tree rules
5	have	to-infinitive	you not said here	one of ears				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
6	sort			wonderful things				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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