The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 78
And she made him take off his coat, and stand up in front of her, and once more she patted an pinned and fixed and joined, and was very careful in smoothing out every wrinkle.
Who acts: sewing, man · What happens: make, take off, stand up, pat, pin, fix · To what, where: man, coat, front, an, wrinkle
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 (sewing, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 made | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 coat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stand | cc |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 take | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 stand | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stand | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 front | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 patted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 patted | cc |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 patted | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 patted | nsubj |
| 22 | patted | pat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 patted | obj |
| 24 | pinned | pin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 an | acl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fixed | cc |
| 26 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pinned | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 joined | cc |
| 28 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fixed | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 careful | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 careful | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 careful | cop |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 careful | advmod |
| 33 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 smoothing | mark |
| 35 | smoothing | smooth | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 careful | advcl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 smoothing | compound:prt |
| 37 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 wrinkle | det |
| 38 | wrinkle | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 smoothing | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | sewing | man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take off | infinitive | man not said here | man's coat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand up | infinitive | man not said here | front of sewing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 4 | pat | past | sewing | an | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | pin | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | fix | participle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | join | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | smooth out | gerund | every wrinkle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wrinkle=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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