The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 83

Most of them used worms, but one, who had put a piece of raw meat for dinner into his skin wallet, cut off a little bit and baited his line with it, unseen by his companions.

Who acts: Most, one · What happens: use, put, cut off, bait · To what, where: worms, piece, skin wallet, little bit, line

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 (Most, one), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 used	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Most	nmod
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 cut	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 put	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 one	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 piece	det
14	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 meat	case
16	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 meat	amod
17	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 piece	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 dinner	case
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 meat	nmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 wallet	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wallet	nmod:poss
22	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wallet	compound
23	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
25	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 bit	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 bit	amod
29	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl:unmarked
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 baited	cc
31	baited	bait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 used	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 line	nmod:poss
33	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 baited	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 baited	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 unseen	punct
37	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 baited	parataxis
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 companions	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 companions	nmod:poss
40	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 unseen	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	Most of roots	worms			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient
2	put	past · perfect		a piece of raw meat for dinner	party's skin wallet		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal
3	cut off	infinitive	one	a little bit			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	bait	past	Most of roots not said here	party's line		with bit	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent line=Destination with it=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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