The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 114

At first the Shifty Lad shut his eyes too, but very soon he sat up, and taking a big needle and thread from his pocket, he sewed the hem of the Black Gallows Bird’s coat to a heavy piece of bullock’s hide that was hanging at his back.

Who acts: Shifty Lad, Rogue, hide · What happens: shut, sit up, take, sew, hang · To what, where: eyes, big needle, pocket, hem, back

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad, Rogue, hide), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 shut	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lad	det
4	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Lad	amod
5	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shut	nsubj
6	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shut	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	6 shut	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 soon	advmod
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 sat	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 sat	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 taking	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taking	cc
19	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sat	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 needle	det
21	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 needle	amod
22	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thread	cc
24	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 needle	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 pocket	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pocket	nmod:poss
27	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taking	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sewed	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sewed	nsubj
30	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shut	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hem	det
32	hem	hem	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sewed	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	39 coat	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Bird	det
35	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 Gallows	amod
36	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	37 Bird	compound
37	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 coat	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Bird	case
39	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hem	nmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 piece	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 piece	det
42	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 piece	amod
43	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sewed	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 hide	case
45	bullock	bullock	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hide	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 bullock	case
47	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 piece	nmod
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 hanging	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 hanging	aux
50	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 hide	acl:relcl
51	at	at	ADP	_	53 back	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 back	nmod:poss
53	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 hanging	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut	past	the Shifty Lad	Rogue's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	sit up	past	Rogue			soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	Rogue not said here	a big needle and thread	Rogue's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent needle=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
4	sew	past	Rogue	the hem of the Gallows Bird's coat		to a heavy piece of bullock's hide	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hem=Patient to piece=Co-Patient
5	hang	past · progressive	bullock's hide		Rogue's back		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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