The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 132

They had also bestowed on him the power of changing his shape, and had increased the quickness of his eyes and ears so that nothing escaped him.

Who acts: strength, power, nothing · What happens: bestow, change, increase, escape · To what, where: power, shape, quickness, boy

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, power, nothing), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bestowed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bestowed	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 bestowed	advmod
4	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bestowed	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 power	det
8	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bestowed	obj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 changing	mark
10	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 power	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shape	nmod:poss
12	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 changing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 increased	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 increased	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 increased	aux
16	increased	increase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 bestowed	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 quickness	det
18	quickness	quickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 increased	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 quickness	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ears	cc
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eyes	conj
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 escaped	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 escaped	mark
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 escaped	nsubj
27	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 increased	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 escaped	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bestowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · perfect	strength	the power	on boy	tree rules
2	change	gerund	the power not said here	boy's shape		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
3	increase	past · perfect	strength not said here	the quickness of boy's eyes and ears		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer quickness=Patient
4	escape	past	nothing	boy		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_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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