The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 40

Without wasting any time she took a fox skin and tied it round her forehead, and fastened another round her waist, as witches always do when they leave their own homes.

Who acts: wife, witches · What happens: waste, take, tie, fasten, do, leave · To what, where: fox skin, skin, another, own homes

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, witches), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 wasting	mark
2	wasting	waste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 took	advcl
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wasting	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
8	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tied	cc
11	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tied	obj
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 forehead	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 forehead	nmod:poss
15	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tied	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fastened	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fastened	cc
18	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 fastened	obj
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 waist	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 waist	nmod:poss
22	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fastened	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 do	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
25	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 do	nsubj
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 do	advmod
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fastened	parataxis
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 leave	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 leave	nsubj
30	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 do	advcl
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 homes	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 homes	amod
33	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 leave	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	waste	gerund	wife not said here		time		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	wife	a fox skin			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3	tie	past	wife not said here	skin		round wife's forehead	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	fasten	past	wife not said here	another		round wife's waist	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Patient
5	do	present	witches			always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leave	present	witches = witch	witches's own homes			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

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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