The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 25

Then, with ill words, twelve negroes dragged in a lovely woman, fettered on hands and feet and meanly dressed, and they set her down on the bare floor.

Who acts: hands · What happens: drag, fetter, dress, set down · To what, where: twelve negroes, woman, bare floor

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 words	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 words	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 words	case
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	amod
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 negroes	punct
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 negroes	nummod
8	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 words	appos
9	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 negroes	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dragged	obl:agent
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fettered	punct
15	fettered	fetter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 words	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 hands	case
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fettered	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feet	cc
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hands	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dressed	cc
21	meanly	meanly	ADV	_	22 dressed	advmod
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 fettered	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	nsubj
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dressed	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 set	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 floor	det
31	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 floor	amod
32	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 words	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	participle		twelve negroes not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	fetter	participle				on hands and feet	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on hand=Co-Patient
3	dress	participle				meanly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	set down	past	hands = hand	woman	the bare floor		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on floor=Destination

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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