The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 8

It laid its right paw over its left, and the prince took the kerchief Jamila had given him for the purpose, and rubbed the dust and earth from its face; then brought forward the game he had prepared, and crossing his hands respectfully on his breast stood waiting before it.

Who acts: way, prince, kerchief, Jamila, crossing · What happens: lay, take, give, rub, bring forward, prepare · To what, where: right paw, left, kerchief, Jamila, prince, dust

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 (way, prince, kerchief, Jamila), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 paw	nmod:poss
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 paw	amod
5	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 left	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 left	nmod:poss
8	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prince	det
12	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	nsubj
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kerchief	det
15	kerchief	kerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 given	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 kerchief	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	iobj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 purpose	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 purpose	det
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rubbed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rubbed	cc
25	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 took	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dust	det
27	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rubbed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 earth	cc
29	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dust	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 face	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 face	nmod:poss
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 earth	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 brought	punct
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 brought	advmod
35	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
36	forward	forward	ADV	_	35 brought	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 game	det
38	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brought	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 prepared	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 prepared	aux
41	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 game	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 stood	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 stood	cc
44	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 stood	csubj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 hands	nmod:poss
46	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 crossing	obj
47	respectfully	respectfully	ADV	_	44 crossing	advmod
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 breast	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 breast	nmod:poss
50	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 crossing	obl
51	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	conj
52	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 stood	xcomp
53	before	before	ADP	_	54 it	case
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 waiting	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	way	way's right paw		way's left			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme over left=Destination
2	take	past	the prince	the kerchief					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kerchief=Theme
3	give	past · perfect · passive	the kerchief not said here	Jamila	prince			for the purpose	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Theme for purpose=Asset
4	rub	past	the prince not said here	the dust and earth from way's face					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dust=Theme
5	bring forward	past	way not said here	the game			then	forward property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent game=Theme
6	prepare	past · perfect	Jamila	the game not said here					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
7	cross	gerund		Jamila's hands		Jamila's breast		respectfully property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
8	stand	past	crossing						vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	wait	gerund	crossing not said here			way			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before it=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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