The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 69

She bathed herself and ordered the deer to be bathed, put on clean raiment, called for a box which stood in an alcove, opened it and gave a portion of what was in it to the deer to eat.

Who acts: Jamila, box · What happens: bath, order, put, call, stand, open · To what, where: Jamila, deer, clean raiment, alcove, head, portion · 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 (Jamila, box), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bathed	nsubj
2	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 bathed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ordered	cc
5	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bathed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ordered	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	10 bathed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 bathed	aux:pass
10	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 ordered	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bathed	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 raiment	case
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 raiment	amod
15	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 raiment	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 box	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 box	det
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 box	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 alcove	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 alcove	det
25	alcove	alcove	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 opened	punct
27	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bathed	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 opened	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 opened	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 portion	det
32	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 what	case
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 portion	nmod
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 it	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 what	acl:relcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 deer	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 deer	det
40	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 eat	mark
42	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 gave	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bath	past	Jamila	Jamila				tree rules
2	order	past	Jamila not said here	the deer				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
3	bath	to-infinitive · passive	Jamila not said here					tree rules
4	put	participle	Jamila not said here			clean raiment		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on raiment=Destination
5	call	participle		clean raiment not said here			for a box	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for box=Recipient
6	stand	past	a box			a alcove		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in alcove=Location
7	open	past		head				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
8	give	past		a portion	the deer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent portion=Theme to deer=Recipient
9	is	past				head		tree rules
10	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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