The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 10

His old cotton rags of clothes were changed to beautiful linen and embroidered cloth; on his hard, bare feet were warm, soft shoes, and on his head a great jewelled turban.

What happens: change, embroider, be, jewell · To what, where: old cotton rags, cloth, hard bare feet

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rags	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rags	amod
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rags	compound
4	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 clothes	case
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 rags	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	aux:pass
8	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 linen	case
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 linen	amod
11	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 embroidered	cc
13	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	conj
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 embroidered	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 warm	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	21 feet	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feet	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hard	punct
20	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feet	amod
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 warm	obl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 warm	cop
23	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 changed	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shoes	punct
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shoes	amod
26	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 warm	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turban	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 turban	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turban	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 turban	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 turban	amod
34	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 turban	amod
35	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 warm	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past · passive	Wali's old cotton rags of clothes		to beautiful linen	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	embroider	past	cloth			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Product
3	is	past		Wali's hard bare feet	soft shoes obl; warm property	tree rules
4	jewell	participle				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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