The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 36
The kerchief which that day she had had in her hand was then tied round its neck, and this freed it from her attentions.
Who acts: magician, this · What happens: have, tie, free, attend · To what, where: kerchief, hand, attentions
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 (magician, this), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kerchief | det |
| 2 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | obj |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 kerchief | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | aux:pass |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 tied | advmod |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 neck | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 neck | nmod:poss |
| 17 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 freed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 freed | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 freed | nsubj |
| 21 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 freed | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 attentions | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 attentions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 freed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | magician | the kerchief | magician's hand | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||
| 2 | tie | past · passive | the kerchief | then | round kerchief's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | free | past | this | kerchief | magician's attentions | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer it=Source | |||
| 4 | attend | magician | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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