The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 47

Meanwhile the servant, whose name was Lung Woman, led him into a little shed, and chained him up to a ring in the wall.

Who acts: name, servant, Lung Woman · What happens: be, lead, chain up, name · To what, where: Lung Woman, ball, little shed

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, servant, Lung Woman), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	11 led	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Woman	punct
5	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 name	nmod:poss
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Woman	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Woman	cop
8	Lung	Lung	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Woman	compound
9	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 servant	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Woman	punct
11	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 led	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 shed	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shed	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 shed	amod
16	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 led	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chained	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 chained	cc
19	chained	chain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 led	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 chained	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 chained	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ring	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ring	det
24	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 chained	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 wall	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wall	det
27	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ring	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lung Woman's name	Lung Woman			tree rules
2	lead	past	the servant	ball	a little shed	meanwhile property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into shed=Destination
3	chain up	past	the servant not said here	ball		to a ring in the wall	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to ring=Co-Patient
4	name		Lung Woman				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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