The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 27

He drank it off, and she took a lute from one of the singers and played upon it with skill which witched away the sense of all who heard.

Who acts: prince, lady, skill · What happens: drink off, take, play, witch away, hear · To what, where: head, lute, sense

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, lady, skill), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 drank	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 took	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lute	det
10	lute	lute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 took	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 took	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 singers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 singers	det
15	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 played	cc
17	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 played	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 skill	case
21	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 played	obl
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 witched	nsubj
23	witched	witch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 skill	acl:relcl
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 witched	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sense	det
26	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 witched	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sense	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 heard	nsubj
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 all	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drink off	past	prince	head		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	take	past	lady	a lute	from one of the singers	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lute=Theme from one=Initial_Location
3	play	past	lady not said here		upon head; with skill	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with skill=Theme
4	witch away	past	skill	the sense of all	away property	tree rules
5	hear	past				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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