The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 33

Asmund, who was extremely fond of his sister, readily consented, and they had a very happy time together, carrying over all their pet treasures, and Signy’s jewels and other ornaments, and arranging them in the pretty little rooms inside the trees.

Who acts: Asmund, jewels · What happens: be, consent, have, carry, arrange, treasure · To what, where: pet treasures, Asmund, pretty little rooms

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Asmund, jewels), 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	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fond	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sister	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 consented	punct
11	readily	readily	ADV	_	12 consented	advmod
12	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 fond	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 happy	advmod
19	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
21	together	together	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carrying	punct
23	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 had	advcl
24	over	over	ADP	_	28 treasures	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 treasures	det:predet
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 treasures	nmod:poss
27	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 treasures	compound
28	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carrying	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 jewels	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 jewels	cc
31	Signy	Signy	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 jewels	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Signy	case
33	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ornaments	cc
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ornaments	amod
36	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 jewels	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 arranging	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 arranging	cc
39	arranging	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 jewels	acl
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 arranging	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	45 rooms	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rooms	det
43	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 rooms	amod
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 rooms	amod
45	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 arranging	obl
46	inside	inside	ADP	_	48 trees	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 trees	det
48	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 rooms	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Asmund				of king's sister; Signy's jewels and other ornaments obl; extremely, fond property	tree rules
2	consent	participle	Asmund not said here				readily property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	Asmund			time	together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	carry	gerund	Asmund not said here		Asmund's pet treasures			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	arrange	gerund	Signy's jewels and other ornaments not said here	Asmund	the pretty little rooms inside the trees			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in room=Destination
6	treasure		Asmund					nom treasure «possession transitive»: 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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