The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 33

Then, and while he was all unaware, she put forth her hand to a stick fashioned like a snake; she said some words over it and struck him so sharply on the shoulder that he cried out; then he made a pirouette and found that he was a deer.

Who acts: prince, fire · What happens: be, put, say, strike, cry out, make · To what, where: hand, words, prince, pirouette, deer · Speech: someone speaks here

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, fire), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 put	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 unaware	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 unaware	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 unaware	cop
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 unaware	det
8	unaware	unaware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 put	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 unaware	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 put	advmod
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hand	nmod:poss
14	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 stick	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stick	det
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl
18	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stick	amod
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 snake	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 snake	det
21	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fashioned	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	parataxis
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 words	det
26	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 struck	cc
30	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 said	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 struck	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 sharply	advmod
33	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	30 struck	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 shoulder	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shoulder	det
36	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 struck	obl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 cried	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cried	nsubj
39	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 struck	advcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 cried	compound:prt
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 made	punct
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 made	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 made	nsubj
44	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	parataxis
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 pirouette	det
46	pirouette	pirouette	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 made	obj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 found	cc
48	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 made	conj
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 deer	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 deer	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 deer	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 deer	det
53	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 found	ccomp
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	prince			unaware property	tree rules
2	put	past	fire	fire's hand	then	to a stick; forth property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past	fire	some words		over snake	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	strike	past	fire not said here	prince		on the shoulder; sharply property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=Patient
5	cry out speech: express	past	prince				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	prince	a pirouette	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pirouette=Product
7	find	past	prince not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	prince	a deer			tree rules

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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