The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 61

Once he even took my best bonnet, when I had gone away to my sick mother, and when I came back I found he had given it to the hen to lay her eggs in.

Who acts: husband, I · What happens: take, go away, come back, find, give, lay · To what, where: best bonnet, husband, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, I), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	4 took	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
3	even	even	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bonnet	nmod:poss
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bonnet	amod
7	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 gone	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 took	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 mother	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mother	amod
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	advcl
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 found	ccomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 hen	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hen	det
32	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 lay	mark
34	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 given	advcl
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eggs	nmod:poss
36	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lay	obj
37	in	in	ADV	_	34 lay	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	husband	my best bonnet		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonnet=Theme
2	go away	past · perfect	I		to my sick mother; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
3	come back	past	I			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	past	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	give	past · perfect · passive		husband	to the hen	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Theme
6	lay	to-infinitive		poultry's eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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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