The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 58

He sent for her and she kissed his feet and received the Mussulman faith at his hands.

Who acts: king, child · What happens: send, kiss, receive · To what, where: feet, Mussulman faith, hands

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, child), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kissed	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kissed	nsubj
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kissed	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 received	cc
11	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 faith	det
13	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 faith	compound
14	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 received	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 hands	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 received	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	king			for child	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	kiss	past	child	king's feet			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Co-Agent
3	receive	past	king not said here	the Mussulman faith	king's hands		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent faith=Theme at hand=Location

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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