The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 28

Then he would go into the cowsheds and unfasten the chains that fixed each beast in its own stall, and let them fall with a heavy clang to the ground.

Who acts: thing, chains · What happens: go, unfasten, fix, let, fall · To what, where: cowsheds, chains, beast, own stall

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, chains), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 go	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cowsheds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cowsheds	det
7	cowsheds	cowshed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 unfasten	cc
9	unfasten	unfasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chains	det
11	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unfasten	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fixed	nsubj
13	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 chains	acl:relcl
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 beast	det
15	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fixed	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 stall	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stall	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stall	amod
19	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fixed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 let	cc
22	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 let	obj
24	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 let	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 clang	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 clang	det
27	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clang	amod
28	clang	clang	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fall	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 ground	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ground	det
31	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 clang	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	thing		the cowsheds	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cowshed=Initial_Location
2	unfasten	infinitive	thing not said here	the chains				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient
3	fix	past	the chains	each beast	beast's own stall			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent beast=Patient
4	let	infinitive		chains = chain				tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	chains = chain not said here				with a heavy clang to the ground	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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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